Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their audiences. TIME'S new section will report "Show Biz" in all its phases. It will include news, trends and personalities of movies, theater, television, nightclubs, pop music. It will report on the more offbeat corners such as carnivals and beauty contests. And it will cover the vast supporting cast of pitchmen-the Madison Avenue mills that turn out commercials, as well as the Hollywood moguls who create new stars. While TIME'S regular THEATER and CINEMA sections will continue to review new plays and movies, SHOW BUSINESS will report the news of big and little theaters...
...Flows. From that fabled city, each day brought a new promise of reform. The government drew up a provisional constitution with an article specifically aimed at cutting up vast farmlands now owned by some 60 sheiks, who were the backbone of Nuri's regime. The rebels abolished the anachronistic tribal courts that would, for a fee, give tribesmen a far softer kind of justice than would a regular court. Dramatically, the rebels also announced that work would cease on Feisal's new $20 million "palace," which was actually to be an administration building with only comparatively moderate accommodations...
...Swedes in 1655. No sooner had the church-state agreement of 1956 been made than pilgrims began flocking by the thousands once again to the shrine that had come to mean national independence. But even more disturbing to the government was the fact that the monastery has been distributing vast numbers of religious tracts, many of them strongly antiCommunist...
AMERICAN industry should find it -L. an opportunity rather than a danger. Do not be afraid of it." Thus did Washington Lawyer and Economist George Ball, an expert on investment abroad, exhort U.S. businessmen to take on a new challenge: the European Common Market. The common market, a vast trading zone of six European countries, will remove trade barriers among participating nations, allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe...
...attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble and rearrange his work in complex patterns." His writing "became a vast radiation of himself in all directions"-an illusion that he intensified by sometimes giving his poems and letters the shapes of circles and fans...