Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along one wall, strategically placed a third behind the committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera...
Thirty minutes later, when his monitors woke him by radio, it was dawn. Methodically, Dr. Simons recorded the colors in his notebook (the sun flashed green) and took a urine specimen. By mid-morning the sun had warmed the inside wall of the gondola to 120° F. But the air of the capsule was cooled to 60°-65° by a compact air conditioner...
...Manhattan she is pushing the wall with the best in town...
...like to go back and start an orchestra for the movies, and once a month or so we could present a jazz concert." But she knows also that Japan is not a challenging place for developing jazz talent; the competition is too thin. "When you push against a wall," says Toshiko, "you know you are pushing. When you push a curtain, it gives...
Last week, as other stocks drowsed, Wall Street woke up to the wonders-and possibilities-of magnetic tape. The stock of ORRadio Industries Inc. jumped live points in a day to 23. Reason: ORRadio, one of the four major makers of magnetic tape (others: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., Audio Devices Inc., Reeves Soundcraft Corp.), is the fastest growing company in the new field. Its sales, which rose 62% to $1,600,000 last year, are expected to hit $2,500,000 this year and quadruple next year. This week in Opelika, Ala., ORRadio rushed to completion part...