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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support the U.S.'s system of military alliances. Of the $3.8 billion total for foreign aid this year, about $3.2 billion goes to provide military equipment and "defense support" for U.S. allies. But the notion persists that foreign aid is still largely, or even mainly, economic-a sort of international dole...
...Another theory, developed by Astronomer Fred L. Whipple of Harvard, is that they are made mostly of "ices." Out in cold, dark outer space, says Whipple, beyond the last of the planets, wandering molecules of methane, water or ammonia tend to stick together as solids. Gradually snowflakes of a sort form. Attracting one another feebly over millions or billions of years, they gather into sizable bodies of solidified gas peppered with grains of sand or dust. They may get to be several miles in diameter...
...phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
...John Crosby when he watched the show for the first time. "The pins go down-or don't go down, as the case might be-and that's about it." But like millions of other televiewers, Crosby kept right on watching. "The darn thing does have a sort of morbid interest," he discovered. "First one guy's ahead, then the other one. Pretty soon you find yourself rooting for one or the other...
...Martin and Ethel Merman that undefinable quality called stage presence, but unlike them she is not, primarily, a singer. Though she possesses a pleasant enough voice, her main ability is as a dancer, and more specifically, a comic dancer. The show offers her only one opportunity to do this sort of work, and the resulting ballet, There Ain't No Flies on Me, is the musical's best sequence...