Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Manhattan to dance the title role in NBC-TV's go-minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...
...familiar voice last week: "Good afternoon, opera lovers from coast to coast." To some 10 million of the radio audience, Milton Cross, 60, was making his soist opera broadcast and winding up his 25th season as announcer of ABC's Metropolitan Opera, radio's oldest and biggest spectacular...
...became "almost as strong as a,man." Before the Olympics began, Guthrie figured Lamy was certainly strong enough to swim like a man. He taught her to reduce her kicking power and to slash the water with her arms in a harsh, unladylike chop The change paid off in spectacular style...
Aircraft Co.; a few months later Wooldridge left Bell to join the fun. In short order, Ramo and Wooldridge developed an electronic fire-control system for the U.S. Air Force which was so good that it became standard equipment on every first-line interceptor. Another spectacular coup was the air-to-air Falcon guided missile to track and destroy enemy planes. When the Korean war sent orders surging through the industry, Hughes was transformed into an electronics giant with sales of $200 million annually...
Weston scientists blamed yesterday's tremor on "some breakage in the earth's surface." Leet said that the Northeast has nothing comparable to the celebrated "San Andreas fault," which has been the cause of numerous spectacular earthquakes in the Pacific coast area...