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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The answer to this was supplied by the influential Manchester Guardian. "The Express' circulation," said the Guardian, "is something which thoughtful Frenchmen are not prepared to shrug off." Fact is that, although Fleet Street may exaggerate popular emotions, it has a good nose for what they are. No one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shrillness in Fleet Street | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

For the First Time (Corona; MGM) presents outsize Tenor Mario ("My voice is the greatest in the world") Lanza as an "unpredictable, erratic, self-centered" American singer who is chased by an overdressed, "publicity-loving" international party girl (Zsa Zsa Gabor). The casting is pluperfect, but most of the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

"It sounds like a lightning bolt is going off in the next room," says one worker. The building shakes, but researchers at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory hardly look up. They know it's only dynamic Alan Kolb, 30, at work on his thermonuclear experiment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting Closer | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Water for Fuel. The first step toward creating a controlled fusion reaction is to heat up deuterium gas until the nucleus (one proton and one neutron) of each atom is separated from the electron that ordinarily orbits around it (deuterium is the hydrogen isotope in heavy water, D2O). If the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting Closer | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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