Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon-Kennedy race, according to Gallup...
...statistics, is adorned with more than 400 speaking parts, about 10,000 extras, 100,000 costumes, at least 300 sets. One of them, the circus built for the chariot race in Rome's Cinecitta, was the largest ever made for any movie. It covered 18 acres, held 10,000 people and 40,000 tons of sand, took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson...
Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences ever shot. All by itself it would be worth the price of admission...
...Race to Invest. Foreign capital for every sort of enterprise has come in since 1954 at the rate of $225 million annually, some 85% of it from Britain and the U.S. Britain is still Australia's biggest partner, but the U.S. is coming up fast. In 1948 the U.S. had only $115 million invested in Australia; today the kitty amounts to $670 million, and the forecast is for $1 billion in U.S. capital by the end of 1960. All told, 880 U.S. firms now do business in Australia. How well they do is evident from the statistics...
...failure was a bitter disappointment to missilemen who hoped to put the United States back into the space race with Russia. It probably means that the Russians will hold their long lead in space exploration for at least another year...