Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with the excellent argument that any unfinished movie that has cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared...
...Wyeth painted four years later in 1952. It is a striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
Into the Bull's-Eye. To perfect his passing motion, Tommy hung a canvas target on a wall of his garage, eventually got so accurate that he could fire a football into the center of a 2-ft. bull's-eye from 20 yds. away. Troy High's coach rebuilt his offense after Ferguson graduated-and Myers was it. By the time he was ready to graduate, he had offers from 15 colleges. But when the lanky youngster turned up at Northwestern, Coach Parseghian wondered if the band might not be the best place for him after...
Minor Expense. Racing gas at 5,300° quickly destroys almost anything it comes in contact with, but Avco claims to have licked this problem by building the wall of its MHD generator out of water-cooled metal pegs separated by heat-resistant ceramic. This material has already lasted through six days of steady use. Dr. Kantrowitz feels sure that in a full-scale plant it will last long enough to make replacement a minor expense. Nor is he worried about the current that is consumed by resistance in the coils of the generator's magnet-a problem that...
Despite such general rosiness, the bloom was off a few recent Wall Street favorites: Bell & Howell blamed diversification expenses for its drop from $1.8 million to $996,000, while Brunswick Corp. attributed its 53% plunge, down to $10.7 million, to "a decline in the installations of bowling lanes...