Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska's House of Representatives at 32, moved on to the territorial Senate two years later. Among his political assets: an attractive, politics-minded wife, seven children, an easy, breezy manner. "Mike has never met a stranger in his life," says an admirer, marveling at Stepovich's talent for winning friends. Even Alaska Democrats like Republican Stepovich. "He's a good guy," says Democratic Delegate E. L. Bartlett. "I like Mike...
...belonged-at the door of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. While Nehru's vast popularity is what most holds the party together, he also tends to strangle and restrict it. By running both the party and the government like a Mogul court, Nehru has failed notably to foster any young talent. As a result, young Indians resent the party, charge that it offers little opportunity to intelligent newcomers. Of 13 chief ministers recently appointed in Congress-run states, five are over 65, three are over 70 and one is 75. Several Indian papers last week suggested that Nehru, like Burma...
...church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal and the commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both the Catholic and the Communist camp, personally opposed in everything except Polish patriotism and a talent for tough-minded compromise. It is a strange coexistence between the cross and the hammer-and-sickle. But Masses are crowded, public schools are swamped with applications for religious instruction that is once again permitted without interference. Everyone seems to be wearing crosses and holy medals, and even the prosperous Red bourgeoisie...
...Lucille Ball's Desilu, which turns out I Love Lucy and 14 other shows, spends $21 million a year, employs up to 1,000 at peak periods, and produces more film footage than the combined output of the five major movie studios. ¶The two biggest talent agencies in U.S. show business, William Morris and the Music Corp. of America, now get $9 in fees from TV deals to every $1 they earn from the movies...
...impact of the little home screen that Hollywood once scorned made the studios jettison more than half their production schedules, as well as stars, writers, directors-even relatives. It also softened them up for the production deals that give top creative talent between 50% and 75% of a movie's profits. The ill wind has so far blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers...