Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will unleash cascades of color and a record-breaking 100 "specials" (the new regime's replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night...
...little after midnight on the 24th of August, 1572 began the famed massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, in which some 2,000 Huguenots were killed by the mob in Paris alone. Last week, in hundreds of Roman Catholic churches throughout France, special Masses were said to ask forgiveness for this crime against fellow Christians, and many Protestant ministers also took note of the occasion to ask their congregations to forgive and forget...
...situation, it was clear that the State Department continued to consider the foreign operations of the press an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Said the pro-Administration New York Herald Tribune: "Inasmuch as the American press has been functioning since before the birth of the Republic and has a special position under the U.S. Constitution, the idea that it should be placed on probation by the State Department is somewhat breathtaking...
...instinct in the late William Randolph Hearst. He began buying in 1901, owned 400 when he died 50 years later. Last year New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bought 65 of the Hearst vases, which have proved so popular that the Met is leaving them on special exhibition for a full year...
...KING COAL is getting weaker instead of healthier, says House Interior Subcommittee after 15-month study. Despite high exports, say Congressmen, industry is "sick with wide spread mine shutdowns and staggering unemployment." To help industry's "uphill struggle for survival," group will ask for tax relief, a special presidential commission to research new uses for coal and ways to cut mounting production costs...