Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millions of U.S. moviegoers have seen the $6,500,000 epic Quo Vadis. In the 15 months since its release, the Technicolored spectacle of pagan Rome has become the third biggest grosser*-$10,500,000-in movie history...
...agreement over Suez should be the next beneficial step. Still to be decided is the form of Britain's withdrawal from its Suez Canal Zone base, jampacked with $1 billion worth of forts, barracks, flying fields and radar-and 50,000 troops. The quid for Britain's quo would be Egypt's willingness to join Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey in a Middle East Defense Organization, pledged to the defense, not only of the canal, but of the entire Eastern Mediterranean...
...other areas, the President's status quo is in arrears of even his party's platform, which was supposedly written by men more conservative than he. Even the famed "bushel of cels" pledged federal action toward the abolition of lynching. But the President contented himself with appeals to the higher moral instinct of bigots and distorters of franchise in hopes that they will stop their practices. The Republican platform promised statehood for Alaska, more rural electrification, votes for the District of Columbia, and a watchdog approach to monopolies. We hope that these were ideas the President had to shelve...
...office bust that followed such films as death of a salesman and Streetcar Named desire in "51 was a delight to the quo Vadis school of cinema which holds that art is not entertainment, and to add to the Oscar committee's woes, several studies have withdrawn their financial support from the Awards...
...Quo Vadis...