Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he has succeeded in shutting off chemistry in a small, little used corner of his mind. True, there are occasional twinges when he reads chemical journals or revises his standard textbook on the subject, but he has done no actual research since becoming president. He gives infrequent but spectacular demonstrations in Natural Science courses, but as he says "since 1933 I can't claim to have advanced the barriers of science one millimeter...
...dangerous game, in which both sides recognized the stake. In a gesture as gallant as it was spectacular, Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew in to blockaded Berlin to address the city government. "Threats," he told them, "are the stock in trade of those who lack confidence. Calm and resolution are the mark of those who seek peace. We know that you Berliners have the right to be free and that we have the right to be with you here." The allied Foreign Ministers, Eden added pointedly, had-just reaffirmed in Paris that "any attack against Berlin from...
Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a-lap prize money, grabbed it back again on 13, held it to 55, when he made a fast stop for oil. Then Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under...
...Britain's Bill Nankeville, the 1,500-meter race at the British track & field games; in London. Nankeville's spectacular time, 3:49, the equivalent of a 4:06 mile, was good enough to beat Don Gehrmann, the U.S.'s best, by ten yards...
Once having attained this blissful state, you can relax and enjoy some spectacular photography of the traditional Technicolor Western stripe and a couple of excellent individual sequences. Particularly impressive is a night cattle stampede which achieves some terrifying effects by the simple expedient of letting the cattle charge the cameraman...