Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The irresistible force of political pressures meets what should be an immovable object: a scrupulously honest man. The Hidden Image stars Franchot Tone, Martin Gabel, Nancy Marchand and George Grizzard...
Next day the Russians released a picture of Lunik III and a fairly detailed explanation of how it took its epoch-making pictures. Lunik III, a notably sophisticated mechanism, proved to be a top-shaped 614-lb. object incrusted with antennas and solar cells, and packed with instruments. As Lunik passed 4,000 miles below the moon's south side, the moon's gravitation tugged at it, pulling it upward (south to north) and behind the moon. This was as planned, the Russians said, so that when Lunik III returned to earth it would come closest...
...chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take them back home. Fenwick, they announce...
Horror and consternation reign in the daffy duchy, whose rulers had not intended to win the war at all but to lose it. The whole object was to get rich quick on U.S. appropriations for war relief...
Dodge's brief for the Arboretum further accuses the Corporation of falling to keep the Arboretum an "independent and separate institution," a requirement he infers from the original trust. To this argument Farr counters that "the Arboretum has never been an object or end in itself...