Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to his lights, left the youngsters plenty to work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
Record performances by Henry Abbott and Ed Bailey brightened an otherwise dull showing by the Crimson track team in last Saturday's K. of C. invitational meet. Abbott set a new University shot put mark with a 51 ft., 6 in. heave, and Bailey threw the 35-lb. weight 51 ft., 11 in. to break his own freshman record...
Thomas was, as usual, sensational. The freshman high jump prodigy cleared every height through 6 ft., 10 3/4 in. without a miss. Then, after missing his first attempt, he went over the bar at 6 ft., 11 3/4 in. for a new world record, eclipsing the one he set last week...
Suppose that ex-president Batista, foreseeing the events that were to come, had provided himself with a relatively impregnable fortress on some small island off the Cuban coast. Suppose again that, when the pot finally boiled over, he had fled to this island, set up shop and declared that his and only his government represented his people...
...four point program set forth by Soloway suggests eliminating deductions for federal tax payments. It also recommends lowering personal exemptions, taxing rental incomes, and improving collection procedures...