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...minute amounts, it will enable electronics men to make transistors with nearly twice the heat resistance (up to 300° F.) of previous transistors, and open up vast new possibilities for the guidance systems in supersonic planes and pilotless missiles. Says President John Erik Jonsson: "This is the purest product ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Newcomer's Growth | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Certain to stir up some of foreign aid's purest theorists is the report's conclusion that "a higher priority should be given to those countries which have joined in the collective-security system"-meaning that such neutralist nations as India and Yugoslavia would be far down on the list. The Fairless argument: Other countries have a right "to take whatever course they believe to be in their own national interest. Our Government is obligated to do likewise, and we should marshal our resources to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aid Plus Trade | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...picture, Actor Hudson spends most of his time exercising the vocabulary of uplift ("Your good deeds are your purest prayers") with the local Confucius (Philip Ahn), and conferring candy bars on an incredibly clean and healthy-looking horde of refugee Korean children. In fact the picture is so ineffably high-minded that the heroine (Anna Kashfi) never finds herself in anything more exciting than the hero's alms. He sends her candy bars too. By the time the lights finally go up, the sugar count of this picture is so dangerously high that theater managers might be well advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Adieux that proved that M. Barrault's purpose is more than just putting on plays. In this most delightful conclusion of the Company's program, the whole cast appeared in formal dress to recite poetry and display their art in its purest form, without scenery, costumes or an imposing vehicle. They ran the gamut from the most subtle verbal effects to no words at all. Barrault's final pantomimes were the epitome of freedom within a highly stylized form. Compared to Marcel Marceau his mime was less delicate and less detailed but it had energy, spontaneity and excitement that Marceau...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Two Days With Barrault | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

...British papers have stopped viewing him with sober-faced alarm. Said the Times last week: "Mr. Haley pounds his guitar without mercy . . . But there is nothing sentimental or morbid about his songs. His pelvis wriggles, not with care (as does that of his rival Mr. Presley) but with purest joie de vivre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Roll, Britannia! | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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