Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there, brother, brother. Let's all go vote ... to be respected and defend the na tional state." At stake were 260 seats in a parliament that will govern Indonesia at least until year's end, when a constitutional assembly will be elected to write a permanent constitution for the republic. At issue was whether Indonesia reverts to the neurotic, fuzzily pro-Communist path of the Nationalist government, which fell in July (TIME, Aug. 1), or chooses to stay on the anti-Communist course of the present Masjumi regime, or so splinters its vote that only vague government...
Since 1951, U.S. industry has built some $31 billion worth of new plants and equipment with the aid of the fast tax write-off, a device designed to permit defense businesses to cut their tax bills by amortizing expansion costs faster than normally. But still, industrialists do not think that they have expanded enough...
...asked for a one-act play that a small, New York drama group could perform for one or two nights. Since small works of this kind were not usually done on Broadway, he agreed to finish a one-act play on which he was working and to write a second one as a curtain-raiser. In the end the plays turned out to be good enough to rank as a major attraction of the new theater season...
...proposed broadcasts would, on the other hand, always have at least a small audience in the College area. Students who simply dislike watching football games, who have a long paper to write over the weekend, or who, especially on a rainy day, might prefer to remain in their rooms with a date and a drink, all might like to tune in at some time during the afternoon...
Finally, Fuller lies in state in a TV studio ("The corpse is wearing a blue serge suit. That was a Command Decision") and a young TV hopeful named Ed Harris is assigned to write a memorial show. As Scriptwriter Harris keeps digging into the soft, rich dirt of Fuller's life, the reader will never find out more than that a heel is a heel is a heel, but he will get a behind-the-camera TV education. He will learn how to tell an executive's importance from the kind of humor with which the doorman greets...