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With war's end, and the onslaught of insularity in the '50s, many of the diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid apocalypse of science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian...
...tended to talk in the void jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...
...Albion, Pa., "whole roofs just exploded," said Fire Fighter Fred Kiedaisch. "There was debris 100 feet in the air -- houses, trees, poles, even outboard motors." Afterward, police canine teams searched the rubble for bodies. They found nine, with 20 still missing by morning...
Dean of Admissions L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn M. Lewis '70--both of whom sources have said are strongly in the running for the position--refused to say whether they had been interviewed by the search committee or if Spence had asked to speak to them...
Canadian-born Fred Lloyd Hartley, 68, once proclaimed, "My life and my love is Unocal." It is a love affair that goes back to May 1939, when he graduated from the University of British Columbia and came to work at Union Oil, the forerunner of Unocal, as an engineering trainee at the Oleum refinery in San Francisco. He rose quickly through the executive ranks, and has served as chief executive since December...