Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "PORGY AND BESS" (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), with Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey...
...Pearl Harbor Day. For Levin, 58, a millionaire New Jersey real estate developer who holds an 11% block of MGM stock (current value: $20 million), it was the second bitter proxy fight against the film company in less than a year. Increasingly critical of management on many matters since his election to the MGM board in 1965, Levin last May forced a stockholders' vote in an unsuccessful effort to block a proposed authorization of additional stock...
...decision to move for outright control came last December. To his detractors, it is somehow appropriate that Levin filed the required papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Pearl Harbor day: his intention, they maintain, is to "raid...
...reason is that any full-time civilian department devoted to the dark arts of espionage is remarkably new to the U.S. Until Pearl Harbor, American espionage was essentially the property of the military services. The Japanese sneak attack was one of history's most flagrant failures of applied foreknowledge, Sun Tzu-style. To fill the vacuum, the Office of Strategic Services was hastily constituted during World War II, and it was from this agency that CIA evolved into a permanent peacetime department under the 1947 National Security...
...February 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, U.S. troops began herding 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans out of their homes and into internment camps scattered throughout the Western states. The wholesale roundup, ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, made a kind of simplistic military sense. After all, the Pacific Coast had been formally-if somewhat hysterically-declared a combat zone. The presence of aliens, all of whom were at least potentially sympathetic to the enemy, seemed to constitute a visible threat...