Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Numbers. Against this G.O.P. approach is, in Ike's mind, a diametric Democratic view. "Instead of trying to release, to guide and to help the great and illimitable results you get from a free people doing these things, they want to guide and direct-and they are not concerned particularly with the sound dollar, because they talk about raising ... expenditures [and] cutting taxes . . . That means . . . deficit spending. And you cannot continue to spend on a deficit basis without hurting your dollar...
...showing him a map of the ground below. The moving silhouette of a small airplane will tell him his position, and a luminous curve on the map will tell him how far he can fly without running out of fuel. Another luminous screen will show him a radar view of the terrain ahead, with mountains or other obstacles. These meaning-packed pictures will be the output of a lightweight computer that will do most of the necessary routine thinking. It will take crude information from many sources and turn it into a form that the pilot can use instantly, without...
...Robert J. Starkey) first walked into Marcel Breuer's office more than two years ago, she knew only that she wanted a house large enough for herself and her three children that would make the best possible use of her rocky hillside site with its sweeping view of Lake Superior. The site problems were made to order for Breuer, who feels the hillside house can ideally combine both the snug, down-to-earth feeling, where the building is anchored to the upper slope, with a soaring, cantilevered view out over the landscape. Because his client planned...
...claim that our President has not been a leader in foreign affairs in view of his role in the Geneva and Panama Conferences, his open-skies proposals, the "Atoms for Peace Program," his great efforts toward world disarmament, and the frequent good-will tours in which he has sent members of his Cabinet and of his family: You do not mention the achievements of the settlement of the Iran and Trieste disputes, the unification of Austria, the rearmament of Germany and its incorporation into NATO, and the reconstruction of Korea...
...Glynis Johns' characterization of Major Barbara is much less successful. She possesses an interesting voice--a sort of throaty croak--but the playwright's subtle speech rhythms prove too difficult for her to handle, and her performance often collapses into singsong. Burgess, the professor, seems capable enough though, in view of his large experience, he too is a little disappointing. His character possesses two sides: poet and, ultimately, shrewd businessman. The merchant is present in his performance from the beginning, but somehow the role never grows quite large enough. The veteran actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, on the other hand, adds...