Word: starkly
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...ominous challenge to the foreign policy and world leadership of the U.S. was not among the articles laid down on paper in the Geneva agreement, but it was a stark reality. By its wavering indecision-unable to stand aloof, unwilling to go all-out in another "little war"-the U.S. had contributed to the defeat. "I will not be a party to any agreement that makes anybody a slave," said President Eisenhower emphatically on June 30. But three weeks later, the U.S. had to stand with the rest of the West, take note of a truce that would make slaves...
...enterprising producer named Paul Coates. Last year Coates, a columnist for the Los Angeles Mirror, decided to create a hard-hitting television program that, he says, would do the things "a newspaperman can do on television. I had written some scripts for Dragnet . . . The greatest attraction there is stark reality in dialogue and faces. I wanted to do a show with real realism. As part of my job on the Mirror, I see the petty hoodlums, prostitutes, homosexuals, unwed mothers, people victimized by racket. Television had not explored this area, and I decided...
...with such vital but prosaic details as fuel consumption and compass headings. Again, Anne had a helpful idea: "Don't let the log readings tie you down. Put them in-let them punctuate the story. They give . . . a subconscious sense of time-a beating undertone . . . Leave them there-stark on a page." In his hour-by-hour chapter leads, building up the statistical suspense, Airman Lindbergh did just that...
...easy to throw stones at the glass houses of Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. To traditionalists, who want their living and working places to combine comfort and beauty, Mies's stark, steel-ribbed structures seem as sterile-and ominous-as a steer's skeleton burned white in the desert sun. But Mies* is one of the most important architects of his time. Together with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he has had a profound influence on cityscapes of the 20th century...
Died. Louis Stark, 66, veteran New York Times newsman, Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of U.S. labor reporters; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...