Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
Without the services of ace goalie Tom Bagnoli, the varsity soccer squad will meet a high-scoring Princeton eleven here this morning at 10:30 a.m. The Crimson must win to stay in contention for the Ivy League championship and this will prove to be a man-sized task...
...obsolescent concept that space can be divided into civilian and military sectors, hence can be organized by civilian and military agencies side by side. This concept developed logically enough when defense planners decreed that space projects should not be allowed to interfere with the military's urgent task of catching up on missile production. But today the U.S. missile program has gathered substantial momentum, while the Russians have demonstrated a firm intention to use space as a primary cold-war weapon...
...admirers are willing to put their votes-and their campaign money-into cold storage, and wait too. "His followers woo him," says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers see hope and unspoken promise...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A documentary drama, 35 Rue du Marche, recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imoosed task: providing homes for European D.P.s...