Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vandercook program (annual cost: some $500,000; stations signed: 128) will be its first big-time use of radio. Last year it sponsored 13 weeks of quarter-hour TV shows (Issues of the Day) to boom some of its favorite themes (civil rights, public housing). Issues was a toe-wetting 'operation that gave the C.I.O. some experience for a' once-a-month television show now in preparation and scheduled to start this fall (annual outlay: $300,000). Explained a spokesman: ''Our idea is to say, 'Folks, here's the C.I.O. in a goldfish bowl...
...Knobby Facts. In other words he says, pay attention to facts. Facts like sticks and stones, running water, a sore toe or a deformed baby may be "perplexing, unexplainable, intolerable, or fearful, but they are the real root of human experience...
Volcano (Panama; United Artists) is an eruptive drama set on Vulcano, one of the small (pop. 450), rugged Aeolian islands west of the toe of Italy. In a melodramatic manner, it tells the highly melodramatic story of a prostitute (Anna Magnani) banished by the Naples police to her native island after an absence of 18 years. There she finds her innocent young sister (Geraldine Brooks) in danger of being seduced by an unscrupulous diver (Rossano Brazzi). In the end, the prostitute kills the diver and dies in a volcanic eruption...
...early movies showed light and shade. Human eyes see a great deal more: they are sensitive to color, and are also rangefinders. When both eyes look at the same object, they "toe in" slightly. The brain measures the converging angle, and from it, estimates the object's distance...
About three times a week, Hungarian-born Sandor Szabo heaves his 225-lb. frame into a Los Angeles wrestling ring and there, under the eyes of a ring and TV crowd, grunts and grimaces for half an hour. From Hungary to California, he has been specializing in step-over toe holds, ankle-drop takedowns, flying mares and other bone crushers for some 30 years. But last week 42-year-old Wrestler Szabo was wistfully eying a new career as a popular singer...