Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The tightest labor supply in booming Germany's history has employers at each other's throats not for customers but for workers-and there is no worry about the expansion in population that preoccupies many of the world's sociologists. One South German auto manufacturer, after hiring...
For this task, the Institut got off to an appropriate multinational start. The 62 first-year enrollees (chosen from 160 applications) represent 14 countries, attend lectures in English, French and German, are taught by German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student...
Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to...
(20th Century-Fox). In a sneak preview of this film at a Manhattan movie theater, a woman in the roped-off guest section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes...
Fighting back, Fonda hires assassins, one of whom kills the other. He also fends off a blackmailer who wants enough money to live for three days like an American tourist. Thus the film alternates between unsuccessful farce and success-formula soap opera, but it never quite lives up to its...