Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give the big roles to the best members of a summer repertory company. The plums, and the experience that goes with them, must be shared. Thus it often happens that the best possible casting must bow to the young actors' chance for development, which is after all the prime object of a group like this...
Into a highceilinged, cream-colored room in Washington's Hotel Sheraton-Carlton one night last week crowded television technicians with bulky equipment and wand mikes. Sixteen reporters, recruited at $125 a head, were ready to help TV Producer Martha Rountree launch her new NBC program, Press Conference. The object of all attention: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., invited by Moderator Rountree (at no cash fee: he got a 20-volume, leather-bound encyclopedia instead) to be the first of a series of key figures to be interviewed. There was a gimmick: Brownell was expected to make an important...
...base with less U.S. help. Progressive Leader Hermann ("The Wrestler") Jonasson, who will probably head a coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does not object to the continued presence of U.S. technicians. Iceland, just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, is an important NATO watchtower, but if asked to leave, the U.S. will have to comply...
Bobbing through Manhattan on her way to Hollywood and the direct-object role in a movie called I Married a Woman, platinum-crowned Diana Dors, Britain's most glamorous current export, singled out the thing she likes best in this first visit to America: "I've discovered air conditioning! You may quote me as saying that since I came to America I'd rather sleep with air conditioning than with my husband!" Chimed in her husband, handsome British Realty Man Dennis Hamilton: "But I expect a reconciliation imminently...
...spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...