Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger stage, High Treason is not quite so dynamic as Seven Days to Noon. The screenplay sometimes bogs down in low melodrama, and the pace lags now & then for wordy political digressions. But in Boulting's camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo-documentary excitement. The spectacular climax, as the saboteurs try to take over massive Battersea power station, was filmed at the actual locale among a futuristic welter of catwalks, dynamos and generating equipment. And Director Boulting gives the fanciful plot a realistic look with the odd British types who get tangled up in the titanic...
Wisconsin recorded the most spectacular time of the day when it rowed the 2000 meters...
Ufford, who had rung up a remarkable performance against Davidson Monday to upset the visitors, was way off his game yesterday. It took spectacular play by his teammate, Bill Goodman, to extend the deciding first doubles match to even three sets, but the North Carolina duo of Del Sylvia and Sam Handel made fewer mistakes in the end and won going away...
...Minnesota, Republican leaders of the Third and Fifth Congressional districts, which were carried by Ike's spectacular primary write-in vote, met and confirmed the results: four delegates for Ike. Previous winner of Minnesota's 24 other delegate votes: Harold Stassen...
...Drake Relays offered some consolation to America's Olympic mile hopes. The University of Kansas four-mile relay team set a U.S. college record (17:15.9). In the process, the team's flying anchor man, Sophomore Wes Santee, turned in a spectacular (but unofficial) 4:07.5 mile. Next day, as if to prove it was no accident, Santee did it again, ran his mile .1 sec. faster to help his distance medley (440, 880, ¾ mi., mile) team set a meet record. The question, Gehrmann and Wilt to one side: Could Santee have beaten Johansson, rain or shine...