Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferrets & Dew. Soviet ferret raids have already felt out North America's defenses. U.S. jets on radar alert, scrambling from bases in Alaska and elsewhere, have repeatedly spotted distant Red reconnaissance planes. The Russians' mission: to try out the radar screen, draw out interceptors, chart and time defense reactions...
...Tokyo last week the government's powerful Foreign Investment Council met in the Bank of Japan's oak-paneled conference room to screen foreign investment proposals. Before it were 70 applications, most of them from U.S. corporations who wished to invest an estimated $34 million in Japan. When the meeting adjourned two hours later, a spokesman declared: "In due time the companies involved will be informed of any progress...
Died. Gladys George, 50, full-blown, platinum-blonde character actress of stage (Personal Appearance) and screen (The Best Years of Our Lives); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood...
...Country Girl (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe and Pearl Bailey hoarsing around in the wide-screen wings (TIME...