Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quo Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
...benefit of latecomers to next month's press preview of Quo Vadis in Manhattan-and for those who may not be able to stick it out for the film's 2 hours and 55 minutes* -M-G-M thoughtfully prepared last week a sensation-by-sensa-tion timetable of Christianity's triumph over paganism: Excerpts...
...Quo Vadis begins...
...Flushing Meadows, the Security Council began its hearing. Britain's chief U.N. delegate, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, flew the Atlantic to state the British case in his crisp fashion. Law seemed to be on his side: last July the International Court of Justice called for maintenance of the status quo in Iran until the oil dispute could be settled by negotiation...
...matter how foolish the attempt to maintain the status quo may be, I would like to prolong that segment of it known as Harvard University as long as possible in its independent position. No matter how dearly beloved the old College football team (rah, rah) may be to the hearts of alumni, if that group is unable to support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which...