Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...licenses for reactors to West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations. In addition, Fox gets 50% interest in Telefilm's film network. Deal assures Fox nationwide distribution for its properties, e.g., Mr. Belvedere, which could be converted into TV films...
...were brilliant students in law, science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works at along with his job as technician in the Stateville prison hospital. Leopold declares, with medical pedantry, that...
...even among the largest of German steel companies. It ranks No. 9. What it does claim is "mass quality" and inventive ingenuity, for B.V. engineers have found ingenious ways to compound 350 kinds of steel alloys, mass-produce delicate spring steel for watches, wafer-thin sheet steel for razor blades, high-quality steel for turbines and locomotive wheels...
...hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both by slashing their heel tendons with razor blades...
...Leviero, the leakers whispered that the manpower cuts meant that the U.S. intended to retreat into "Fortress America" and abandon its allies overseas. Only last month, in a similar desperate gamble to preserve the Army's status quo, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, the Army's razor-sharp director of research and development, told a Senate investigating committee that the fallout from an all-out atomic attack on Russia might kill hundreds of millions of people in friendly nations should certain unfriendly winds prevail. His motive: to attack the deterrent principle...