Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...York City was all set to start on its new $511,607,630 school-expansion program (TIME, July 31), but last week President Maximilian Moss of the Board of Education marched before the City Planning Commission with an afterthought. In view of the world situation, Moss said, the Board of Education recommended the construction of built-in atomic bomb shelters in each new school. Estimated extra cost: $50 million. The Planning Commission was thinking it over...
Professor Levi informed the education ministry that the bundle had "mysteriously disappeared," and Education Minister Guido Gonella rushed into action. Fearing that the questions had fallen into student hands, Gonella ordered all examinations throughout Italy halted. It took the ministry staff three days to make up a new set of questions; meanwhile, 11,200 examiners sat around marking time...
Turning to set manufacturers, FCC suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
...imaginative approach has been born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...