Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain and the U.S.S.R. got together in Geneva's Palais des Nations for the widely heralded talks on test suspension. "The U.S.,'" said Ambassador James J. Wadsworth. the U.S. delegation chief and disarmament specialist, "enters the talks in the best possible faith to make the conference a success.'' Said British delegate David Ormsby-Gore: "In a sense we are pioneers...
...Manhattan with a new play, Britain's Angry Young Success John Osborne looked back with pleasure on his previous record with U.S. critics. "I've actually been more respected here," said the 28-year-old playwright of The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger. "At home I feel like Julius Caesar going into the Forum . . . In this American century-because it has the American look and the American accent-the cry at home now is that I've sold out to the Yankee dollar...
...trustbusters agreed with Burns's reasoning that a pool would serve to spur color experimentation, foster industry wide cooperation, yet still not place RCA at a competitive disadvantage. Before color TV will be a success, say commercial manufacturers, a better and cheaper way must be found to make sets. Said a trustbuster: "The pool is an RCA gamble to open up the field...
...secret of Elox's success is its complicated electronic controls (using hundreds of condenser tubes) and its ability to tackle new projects. Larkins has kept the company small and flexible by making only the controls, subcontracting the work of making the machines to other companies. Some sell for as little as $8,500, range as high as $200,000. Larkins is constantly taking on new jobs. When the Portland (Me.) Copper & Tank Works needed a machine that would rapidly drill 160 evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric...
Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...