Word: tried
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one in five is completely under Viet Nam control. Many tiny villages live in terror of the Communists, pay them tribute in rice and young recruits. How to cut off these villages from Communist influence is a problem which has long occupied northern Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into...
...Texas, and small-craft warnings were flying along the coast. But the weather was expected to remain well within the "limits of operating conditions" for the four-engined DC-6. Its captain, Ernest A. Springer, was a 44-year-old veteran of airline operation. National had safely flown the tri-city route 9,978 times...
Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only...
...content of the films is not worth the resulting headache. Besides the effective cartoons, there is an explanation of the "Tri-Optic technique and a tedious British travelogue. After a long and enjoyable intermission, the showing resumes with the flickering Sadler Wells ballet. Often in these latter pictures, a dimension is misplaced and the scenes appear flat and ordinary. More research and better material are necessary to change Tri-Optic films from an experiment to entertainment...
...flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right in Brooklyn's backyard at Astoria...