Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses, and in Northern Rhodesia, Barotseland is regularly plagued by gruesome ritual murders. In the whole federation there are only four Negro physicians and three Negro...
...fills the screen quite well. The best spots in the movie, by far, are his beautiful conversations with the great fish. Tracy's clean handling of simple Hemingway humor mitigates the effect of some rather overspectacular camerawork, and his thoughtful poise while handling the fishing lines sustains a stretch of heavily philosophical narrative...
White Supremacist John Kasper, 29, whose unpopularity in the North is exceeded only by his unpopularity in the South, was still a loser. Three months out of jail (for riot agitation in Clinton, Tenn. in 1956), rickety John was given a six-month stretch at Nashville's Davidson County Workhouse, after an all-male, all-white jury convicted him of riot agitation...
...flying, which other airlines ignored, with an unprecedented ad titled "Afraid to Fly?" ¶ William J. Hogan, 56, executive vice president for finance, is a wiry, greying man, who has won an industry-wide reputation for shrewdness by getting American's money on the best terms, making it stretch farther with careful planning. Smith hired him in 1947 when he was treasurer and controller of H. J. Heinz Co. ¶ William Littlewood, 60, vice president in charge of equipment research, is one of the world's leading aircraft engineers. He has made contributions to the development of every...
DeBakey and his team actually performed operations on 69 victims. In some cases they reamed out carotid and other arteries leading to the brain, in others they bypassed a completely shut-down stretch of artery with a Dacron tube to carry blood from a lower stretch of healthy artery to a higher one. Among the 69 cases they found 13 for whom they could do nothing, and had five failures, but in 51 cases they reported success. In some instances this was as great as relief from a substantial degree of paralysis, or loss of speech, or partial blindness...