Word: thought
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Stanton and CBS can still take credit for changing color TV from a laboratory experiment to an immediate possibility. CBS might eventually lose out in the changing fortunes of battle, but color of some sort is certainly on its way. In Hollywood, the major moviemakers, trembling at the thought of being caught with their vaults full of black & white film when color TV comes along to keep moviegoers at home, last week announced that 75% of next year's movies will be shot in Technicolor or Super-Cinecolor. The Theater Owners of America, who presumably know what their customers...
...There's no question of innovation, but only of clarification," protested black-haired Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo in Rome last week. Those who regarded his article in the Jesuit fortnightly Civiltâ Cattolica as something new in Roman Catholic thought, he said, were wrong. Father Messineo's conclusion had been that "tolerance is a duty of both individuals and states towards those who have accepted error and profess error." This tolerance, reasoned Messineo, rises out of the respect due to the human person and to his God-given right of exercising his reason and working...
...export controls and other restrictions, the U.S. thought that it had staunched the flow of strategic materials into Communist China and Iron Curtain countries. But last week Maryland's Democratic Senator Herbert O'Conor, who has been looking into Far Eastern shipping (TIME, Oct. 30), found that the ban on such exports was about as effective as a sieve...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...
...with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went. He went to Chicago, where the other gangsters live." At 1:30, after, a "long succession of choice dishes ... a considerable sucking-pig was brought to the table." Finding no one able to help...