Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further breakdown: 1) the big, obvious news story, 2) the comprehensive situation story, with preparations made long in advance, 3) the local offbeat story which can grow out of a small newspaper squib, and 4) "the TIME type of exclusive, like a new business starting up, or a spectacular operation by a surgeon or troubles within some church parish . . . They are the news dividends of the week." Bill Johnson, in Dallas, checked back on his last 23 stories, found one originated with a press conference, one tip came from a press agent, seven from newspaper stories and 14 from personal...
...Orange and Black built up a solid 3 to 0 lead before sophomore Norm Wood could stickhandle the puck past the spectacular Torrey, at 7:00 of the last period...
Howard Hughes' latest effort, The Las Vegas Story, has the same old Hughesian ingredients: Jane Russell's bust, Vincent Price's portrayal of a rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
While Napalm was Fieser's most spectacular war-time discovery, it was but one one many. Reports on his war projects fill two volumes. Fieser developed a "comfort fire" for isolated troops, which he chauvinistically called the "Harvard Candle," a bomb to ignite oil slicks, christened the "Paul Revere" (because it works on land or sea"), and a number of other incendiary bombs...
...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...