Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for an absolutely unbeatable SAC, with hundreds of intercontinental bombers that can fly at twice the speed of sound at such altitude that the pilots can see the Milky Way at high noon. It is Pat Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions in a vast military machine. And it is the duty of Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...immediately all over the world, and along with them, efforts to build strength and unity against the Communist threat . . . Neutralists and proCommunists were confirmed and strengthened in their positions. The free world was psychologically disarmed. It is clear now that the 'spirit of Geneva' was a smoke screen behind which the Russians have made a major break-through...
...Screen Gems, the TV subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, hopes to raise a contented crop of future television playwrights. The fertilization: scholarship grants for budding authors have already been assigned to Fordham University and the universities of North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Iowa...
...refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy) go gollygoshing through the love scenes in his second screen role, the audience may reasonably suspect that the French girl has simply been trying, in a tactful way, to say no thanks, buster...
...refuses, and what happens next is a ghastly digest of the 1934 fight, in which Baer gave Carnera the most brutal beating he ever took (eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds), and won the heavyweight championship. The eleven rounds are condensed into several of the most savage minutes seen on screen in recent years, and when they are over, the ring looks like a butcher's block...