Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movie Pioneer Zanuck had a world of know-how for setting up an independent unit in his four-month leave of absence. His "temporary" replacement: Oscar-Winning Producer Maurice ("Buddy") Adler, 47 (From Here to Eternity...
...appointment of an American expert to the planning body follows the earlier naming of Polish professor Oscar Lange to a similar position. The simultaneous use of Western and Communist advisers "shows a type of parity between varying economic views" in the planning for India's economic future, according to Sharada Prasad, an associate Nieman Fellow and news editor of the Bombay "India Express...
...have always been a political mercenary!" cried Deputy Oscar Nájera Farfán to Deputy José Garcia Bauer in Guatemala's Constituent Assembly. "At least I am not the night chamber pot of politics!" retorted Garcia Bauer. "O piece of excrement, follow me out of this room!" thundered Nájera Farfán. In the tussle that followed, Nájera Farfán landed a solid right hook to Garcia Bauer's ear before other deputies pulled them apart...
...number of words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...
...More than 15 million moviegoers in 6,500 U.S. theaters cast votes at the end of November to choose their own film favorites in the first Audience Awards election. Winners of the gold-plated Audie, first cousin to the Oscar: best actor, the late James (East of Eden) Dean; best actress, Jennifer (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Jones; most promising new personalities (actor and actress), Tab (Battle Cry, Track of the Cat) Hunter and Peggy (Pete Kelly's Blues) Lee; best movie, Warner Bros.' Mr. Roberts...