Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower issued his instructions to Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers about 3 1/2 hours after his special fact-finding panel report to him that "We see no prospects for an early cessation of the strike" which already has lasted a record 97 days...
...Suez Canal; without it, France is no better, in fact a little worse, than the rest of Western Europe. De Gaulle's desire for the uninterrupted flow of oil from the Sahara to France both inspires his sincere effort to end the Algerian war and gives a special shape to his formula for peace...
...spite of their new-found prosperity, the lame McGee and blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded...
...evening duet by Chester Robert Huntley (New York) and David McClure Brinkley (Washington) presents the news with unusual (for TV) restraint: its stars are both unexcitable men who seldom pontificate but project an air of unassuming authority and easy informality. "I'm a newsman using TV as my special medium," says Chet Huntley. The key to their success is the fact that they are pros (both have spent most of their working lives as newsmen of the air, with early stints on newspapers) dedicated to the principle that news is not show business...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery-Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...