Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, the news is not just what happened yesterday or today. It is the whole stream of events, which can be seen in their full dimension only by assessing the past, examining the present, following the course of trends and looking toward the future. Four facets of the news in this week's TIME especially illustrate this scope...
...Boston sportwriter once said that the Band's word formations at Fenway Park looked like a "lino-typist's nightmare," but the Band usually seems to put on an orderly presentation for the football crowds. A sign of progress was seen in 1957 when it had grown enough through the years to be able to spell Y-O-V-I-C-S-I-N, even with dotting...
...West, Harold Macmillan's smashing victory in Britain's general election (see cover) cleared the way for serious summit planning. Until the British election results were in, Washington had seen no point to making any summit decisions; a Labor victory would have confronted the rest of the Western alliance with a British government that needed time to learn the ropes and that might well have proposed summit schemes even flashier than Macmillan's. Now, assured of a familiar quantity in London, Western foreign offices could settle down to working out a unified position for the great confrontation...
...vigor, reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last...
What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...