Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is unsatisfying; it lacks the right touch and tone. Its setup calls for something cool, smooth, quietly disdainful; far too often it is given something Broadwayish and breezy-stretches in which grown-men exchange banter about sex and a scene of disheveled, morning-after, mail-order farce. There is too palpable an air of We Aim To Please about it, and of aiming to please the very far from fussy...
...believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years") sure pats himself on the back and slaps labor. So nobody hires carpenters, plumbers and electricians, and then no one buys Republic Steel. A perfect setup. We all starve...
Along with the news of the new forces level, the Pentagon made public plans for a new military manpower setup. At a press conference last week, John A. Hannah, retiring Assistant Secretary of Defense, disclosed Pentagon proposals for five manpower pools: 1) the regular military forces; 2) a Ready Reserve of 3,055,984 in National Guard and Reserve units; 3) a specialists' pool of 750,000 reservists, to be inducted as their talents are needed; 4) an annual draft of 300,000; 5) a special pool of untrained draft-age men to be inducted in the first months...
...Limestone, Me., the Air Force formally dedicated the nation's smallest TV station. A one-camera setup with a maximum range of three miles, the station serves the remote, 15,000-man air base with kinescopes of regular shows (the commercials are eliminated) and with live Air Force talent. Similar TV stations are planned for armed forces stations in such isolated overseas areas as French Morocco, the Azores, Iceland and Saudi Arabia...
Under the present advising setup one faculty member handles nine advisees. The new plan will cut this ratio slightly and reduce the number of faculty advisors, though never eliminating them entirely. "They are much too valuable a part of the system to lose entirely," von Stade explained...