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...would be a boon to the cost-pinched TV industry. Of the 83 TV stations which have gone into operation since April 1952, an estimated 30% will run in the red this year; last year, no fewer than 38 construction permits for new stations were surrendered because of the bleak profit outlook. Black & white broadcasting has become so expensive that only a few of the biggest sponsors can afford more than a half-hour show; color TV will increase the costs. When the cost of Milton Berle's Tuesday night hour soared from...
...southeastern Sicily, the islanders have a name for the bleak hill town of Ragusa: una brutta citta-an ugly city...
...bleak Idaho desert, a wayfaring man, if wayfarers were permitted, might stumble on what looks like a scene of mis placed industrialism. A great cloud of steam rises from a pond of hot water, and near by stands a forbidding building of blank-walled concrete. It looks like a powerhouse, but no smoke comes from the six short stacks sticking out of its roof (they are emergency ventilators). The building, nevertheless, is a powerhouse-the first nuclear powerhouse of the Atomic...
...father Abraham had saved 100 rubles (then $50) and managed to reach New York. In another two years of hard work, he saved enough to send for his family. Ruchal (Rose) Rickover and her two children, Fanny, 8, and Hyman, 6, made their way across Germany, sleeping in bleak dormitories provided by German Jews. When they saw their first ships at Antwerp, the future admiral, Hyman, burst into tears. "The boats were so big," his sister recalls, "they frightened...
...provided the equalizer, also in straight sets, against Rosewall. For the all-important doubles match, the Aussie selectors broke up the Hoad-Rosewall combination and lost a match that even U.S. Captain Talbert had conceded to Australia. With their team 1-2 behind, the Aussies switched from optimism to bleak pessimism. Only twice in the 54-year history of the Davis Cup had a team managed to overcome such a deficit. Particularly embittered by the loss of the doubles, Aussie fans began calling the selection committee "the guilty...