Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to enjoy all to ourselves the steady annual increase of 6% in our national product," West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard proposed that his government review its system of foreign credits and "untie" them so that in the future underdeveloped countries would be free to use German credits for the purchase of non-German products. The U.S. could only welcome the offer, while noting wryly that burgeoning West Germany could now contemplate a variety of economic liberalism that the U.S. itself had felt obliged to restrict...
Supplies come in by night aboard small planes flying out of southern Florida. The Castro government last week decreed a 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew on light plane flights, following up an official protest in Washington over the use of Florida fields by the anti-Castro rebels. ("So Castro thinks the flights can be stopped," retorted a U.S. border patrolman in Miami. "When he was fighting Batista, he bragged that 75% of his own arms shipments got through...
Faithful to this rigid ritual, few writers busy paying for their swimming pools and Thunderbirds with Private Eye cash could take the facetious oath of Britain's Detection Club-that their heroes "shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them . . . not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence...
...devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly as a dry fly onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot the joint up like maniacs, or "they all throw their revolvers away and use their fists and are too damn smart. A good Private Eye doesn't get in trouble-he doesn't get hit with surprises. If you do a decent job, you don't have violence." In 13 years of sleuthing, says 41-year-old Investigator Lipsett...
...picture on the tube cries for action; the detective who takes time out to think becomes tedious. It was different on radio, says Writer-Producer Dick Carr, a veteran of radio's Richard Diamond and now a writer on TV's Staccato. "In radio you could always use a narrator to tie up the loose ends. I could cover any hour TV show today in one half-hour of radio with the use of narration. The hour TV show has room for only a half-hour of ideas...