Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health and state highways) through the Democratic legislature. Although on the Democratic Advisory Council, he plumps mostly for such Western causes as reclamation projects, has much regard for Texan Lyndon Johnson's ideas. One of the West's able Catholics, he has upped his vice-presidential lightning rod, demands party attention to his region. Says he: "We have votes as well as political savvy...
Four years ago, TV Playwright Rod Serling made his reputation with Patterns, a cliche-ridden but highly effective drama about a ruthless power struggle inside Big Business. Last week, as if to even things up, Playwright Serling took on Big Labor. The Rank and File (on CBS's Playhouse 99) sprawled across two decades of picket lines and meeting halls, was less neatly patterned than Patterns, with its close-order action around the directors' table. But, because exectuive suites have become a show-business commonplace, while the union local is still relatively fresh territory, The Rank and File...
...marketplace at Algeciras with a 156-ft. spherical dome, a shelter still ranked as a classic of shell construction. The next year he evolved a scheme for the Madrid Hippodrome, in which a series of soaring shell roofs (see color) were so delicately cantilevered that a thin, vertical tie rod behind the stands was all that was needed to keep them in equilibrium. In Spain's Civil War, the Hippodrome was subjected to trial by fire-it was shelled and took 26 hits. But Torroja's structure survived, bedraggled but still sound...
...generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...