Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiery Pinwheel. Behind these out-streaming clouds Rougoor and Oort found a ring of hydrogen about 300 light-years wide and encircling the galaxy's center at a distance of 1,600 lightyears. It appears to be revolving at a good clip (600,000 m.p.h.). Inside it is a band of almost empty space; then comes a rotating disk of hydrogen whose density increases toward the center. Neither ring nor disk appears to be moving outward. They are like the solid part of a fireworks pinwheel, which spins rapidly and throws off spirals of sparks...
Clear Conscience. Even more significantly, CBS moved last week to clip the wings of non-quiz shows. President Frank Stanton announced that he wants CBS to dump all "deceptive" TV practices (including canned applause and canned laughter) unless the audience is informed of them beforehand. Stanton even lashed out at CBS's own personal-interview shows, notably such tame and untarnished stalwarts as U.N. in Action and Person to Person, because the guests are vaguely rehearsed. In rage, P. to P.'s producers, John Aaron and Jesse Zousmer, resigned -but not before retorting that the show...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...
Like the Western. TV's Private Eye certainly cannot lay claim to realism, either. His real-life counterparts work out of the country's 5,000 agencies (and earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They spend more time at plant protection or gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone...
...Bratby confessed afterwards, "and springs from God knows where, but when the spotlight's on me, I feel enormously encouraged." Last week the spotlight was on Bratby again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip in the last seven months. The scene has changed from the gloomy digs he used to occupy with his wife and two children in a house he got rent-free from his in-laws. Recently elected an associate of the august Royal Academy, and sporting a new beard, Bratby has come...