Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...impromptu performance at the Ritz-Carlton was part of five week's preparation for this week's cover story on Loewe and his lyricist partner, Alan Jay Lerner. The process began when Grunwald and Show Business Writer John McPhee watched the new Lerner-Loewe show, Camelot, on its second night-in Toronto. Soon afterward, Researcher Joyce Haber was assigned to the story, spent 14 days in Toronto and Boston interviewing the mercurial Loewe and getting back-ground information from others in the cast (plus a miserable cold, perhaps inherited from Star Richard Burton). Once, while Researcher Haber...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
...complain that the industry has overexpanded. In the face of this criticism, most steelmen are now making capital outlays-at the rate of more than $1 billion a year- chiefly to modernize their plants, put in improvements that will produce better or less expensive steel. One example: the oxygen process, by which oxygen and gas are shot into a furnace to speed up the burning of impurities. An invariable but often unintended result is extra capacity: the oxygen process can raise capacity of furnaces 10% to 20%. The new processes also push some older equipment into reserve; about...
...language of the simpler machines, in turn, has to be translated into a form that computers can use. Also, a computer talking in punched cards cannot talk to a computer operating with I magnetic tape, unless the punched-card information is first put on tape, often a lengthy, expensive process. Last week Long Island's Digitronics Corp. brought out a converter, or translating machine, that licks much of the problem...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...