Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost every spoken tongue, of a multitude of translators, interpreters and tamperers. When it appeared on TV last week, the test was strictly of TV. Was the narrow, circumscribed cathode world of 17 or 21 inches up to the big challenge of one of the most compelling and most perfect of plays? The answer, delivered lovingly by Omnibus, over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated that television can carry art into the living room and be at home there without...
...There is no denial that we are firm in upholding democracy," said Indonesia's President Sukarno last week, "but the question remains: Is democracy as practiced in our country already perfect and suitable to our needs? Think it over...
...Vermont, Stowe's Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak rate from good to excellent. The novice area on Wilmington's Mt. Snow is called "perfect for skiing...
...World War II. On his last scheduled carrier landing aboard the old Saratoga in 1941, his plane hook skipped over the arresting gear, and he crashed into the landing barrier at high speed. Badly shaken up, he climbed into another plane, took off, and came back in for a perfect landing...
...operations were most intense, there were three major weather fronts across the North American continent. The Civil Aeronautics Administration was hard pressed to keep abreast of all SAC and civilian air traffic." Despite such difficulties, tough, exacting General Curtis LeMay's SAC put on a near-perfect display of massive, smooth-functioning air power: every plane took off on schedule, every aerial refueling (the B-47s used some 16 million gallons of fuel during the exercise) was successfully carried out at the proper time in the proper place. The only casualties: three crew members of a B-47 that...