Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business Career. According to a friend, Don Quarles has "one bad habit: hard work." He studied theoretical physics at Columbia while working full-time at Western Electric. Later, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, he wrote technical papers, e.g., Motion of Telephone Wires in Wind, helped to develop the coaxial cable, pioneered other telephone and TV equipment, directed the lab's vast World War II radar program. Usually he brought a fat briefcase home from work every evening to his green-shuttered home in Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he moved to New Mexico as president of Western Electric...
...Capitol grounds to the late Ohioan, and set up a commission to make plans for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges slyly asked that the Roosevelt commission also consider a memorial to Massachusetts' Republican Calvin Coolidge, but later withdrew the motion...
...that people should think alike and believe alike before they can work together. The essential thing is that none should attempt by force or trickery to make his beliefs prevail." They were there, said the President, to "inject a new spirit into our diplomacy," "to generate and put in motion the new forces needed to set us truly on the path to peace." Then Ike listed the West's choice of chief topics for discussion : German unification, European security, Communist subversion, disarmament...
...winter, Estes has put his well-manicured Tennessee hand into a whole fistful of investigations. As the head of a subcommittee charged with investigating juvenile delinquency, he has traveled to New York to study the injurious effect of pornographic literature upon teenagers, and to Los Angeles to criticize various motion pictures, e.g., Blackboard Jungle, for stressing sex and violence. As the head of another subcommittee, he has pondered how the U.S. can save itself from hydrogen demolition. He has held hearings on the Bricker Amendment, and as the chairman of still another subcommittee, he has kept the ball rolling against...
...home territory to about 250 companies which are in the $100-million-a-year business of producing TV films. In 1956, Hollywood will produce more than 3,000 hours of TV entertainment, both live and on film. What this means is clear from a comparison with the motion picture companies' expected production for the nation's movie screens: at most 300 hours of entertainment...