Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among those who weighed out the H-bomb argument and found in Ike's favor: scientists :md other residents of the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratory town of Los Alamos...
...good. But a young British medical researcher at the University of Cape Town, Dr. Brian Bronte-Stewart, kept asking himself: "What about the Eskimos?" Although they eat lots of animal fat, such as seal oil, they have one of the world's lowest coronary disease rates. Dr. Bronte-Stewart was carrying on diet experiments with the Bantu; there were no Eskimos handy for him to test in South Africa. But there were seals around the South African coast, so why not feed the Eskimo staple-seal oil-to the Bantu? Bronte-Stewart tried it, and found that...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 9--Excitement and anticipation for "the greatest weekend of the year" mounted to a high pitch in Tiger-town today as most of the 2000 dates expected by Princetons poured into town. Princeton has been looking forward to these three days as the highlight of its social season rather than as a major football weekend...
...eyes skillfully. Blanco' brother, a preaching, liquor-selling village elder, is played by John Baker with very appropriate pomposity and effectively over-eloquent gestures. A local strutting, drawling, over-eager youth buck is neatly created by Dick Cattani. Phyllis Ferguson is graceful and strong in the role of the town bed-warmer, while Mary Wild looks excellent as she broods sadly through the role of the grieving mother. The director, Beverly Bourns, molds her cast with a good eye for placing people around an efficient, simple stage, designed by Donald Adam. The costumes by Marjorie Meeks, are appropriate...
...nimbleness, the knowingness, the irony, the sharp observation of small-town life in all this has hardly been surpassed on the screen. Moreover, there is a sense of the unpredictable flow of life, even though in Vitelloni it is only the sloshing of stale water in a very small pot, that gives to everything Fellini does a kind of tidal vitality. Fellini sees his people straight and whole, most warmly and naturally loves them and hates them, and takes them as they are. It is one measure of Fellini's superiority to most of his neorealist colleagues...