Word: casting
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Yale-in-China suffered a similar fate. A Communist edict closed the school at Changsha, and the trustees of the Yale-in-China Association cast about for a new way to improve East Asian education. In 1953, they decided to support New Asia College, a school set up in Hong Kong by refugee scholars. The Western-style approach to learning has been continued. Its full-time staff of 42 members teaches standard subjects, and in currently planning to create a Faculty of Science. In cooperation with other Hong Kong schools, New Asia College is also attempting to strengthen its Chinese...
With Kennedy only half a dozen votes away from victory, the small states of the nation took on great importance. Kennedy won Montana's four electoral votes. He pulled ahead slightly in Hawaii. Down South, the Democratic rebels who had cast their votes for independent electors conjured up visions of becoming kingmakers. Among them, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia had 31 electors-only five for Kennedy, and 26 "unpledged." The predawn dream: perhaps neither candidate would get a majority, and the Deep South could throw the election into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote...
...characters in the movie are about as typical as the events, except for the husband. He is, I believe, the first he-man ever to be cast as a dentist. Fairly obviously his profession considerably alienates bride Brigitte's socially minded father, but such scorn is obviously unmerited because the hero dresses Ivy-Leaguishly and drives around in a brand-new white sports car--a fine vehicle indeed except when it serves as a background for the equally white subtitles...
...rest of the cast is perfect, especially for anyone who likes to think in black and white while watching technicolor. The villains look extraordinarily vile, except for one or two who don't seem to care one way or the other. Brigitte's father performs admirably in a comic-relief role; his best scenes occur when he goes to the dance hall looking for Vidal and (inevitably) is mistaken for a prospective pupil. And the inspector and his sub-gendarmes express all of a cop's care-worn but crime-piercing wisdom...
Renowned as a structural engineer and a master of pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete, Nervi built the Turin Exhibition Hall with a one-and-one-half-inch thick concrete shell spanning 300 feet. He is a professor at the University of Rome...