Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lancaster, Ohio, makes specialized TV units (average installation cost: $4,000). Compared to entertainment TV, it is still small potatoes, but the field is wide open. Foxboro Bay State Raceway outside Boston has signed up for a battery of cameras to monitor races at various points along the rack. The new Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, now going up, will have closed-circuit TV to let a guest read a dinner menu on his TV set or give him a look at the nightclub act going on downstairs. In Las Vegas, the plush Sands Hotel is installing...
During the rest of the picture, Wfllie and Joe rack up enough mileage in that chariot to make Carnival Story a sort of Indianapolis classic of its kind. At first, Willie gets a job in the cook tent, but then the high-diver (Lyle Bettger) gives her a spot in his act. One day he asks her to marry him. Joe does not mind: all he wants is his free ticket on the merry-go-round. Disgusted, Willie weds the high-diver, but Joe soon has her right back where he wants her. Before it all ends, Willie is left...
After an intermission the serious work of the evening begins with a male chorus of well-blended voices opening HMS Pinafore. Morely is back as Ralph Rack-straw and Miss Smith sheds her bridal veil for the gypsy dress of Buttercup. They are again quite good, with Miss Smith a little weak on the acting end and Morely too conscious of how his spoken words have sounded in other actors' interpretations. Edward Morse, on the other hand, cuts loose from D'Oyly-Carte's version to create an interestingly stiff and proper Sir Joseph. Paul Sperry, while a bit awkward...
...Billion Dollar Club" got a new corporate member last week. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., whose 1953 gross soared to $1,025,833,041, up 7% over 1952, became the 33rd U.S. corporation to rack up sales of more than $1 billion. One reason for the rise: Union Carbide's rapid expansion in the production of plastics...
...crowd in front of the rack had grown considerably, and Vag had difficulty seeing which card was attracting all the attention at the end of the rack. He pushed against the several men and the girl in front of him and read: "This Valentine shows quite clearly that. . ."Someone opened it. A portable mousetrap smashed his thumb. Ouch. "I have a crush on you," the greeting concluded with small consolation. Clever, Vag thought...