Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...round star at the University of Mississippi, Patton was drafted by the Giants in 1955 for defensive work. He soon realized that he knew next to nothing about the game of football as it is played by the pros-and he learned the hard way. Pro ball carriers knocked him cold time and again. Not until his third year did he really begin to solve pass patterns and develop into a star. This season, at 28, Jimmy Patton is an articulate, confident craftsman who is recognized throughout the National Football League as the safety man who has mastered every trick...
...head critics of the leading New York newspapers." But what caused Barr real pain was his unwanted reputation as the most powerful taste-maker in America. "I am more than embarrassed," he wrote, "I am dismayed. Any influence I may have is largely dependent upon the institution where I work. Now it is true that the Museum of Modern Art has a few times set out de liberately to be a tastemaker. It did a good deal to accelerate revolutionary changes in American architecture and probably affected the design of American furniture, too, even though unfortunately it failed...
...Hanna-Barbera shop is efficient but unconventional. Hanna and Barbera work harder and longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology this month will present a show on which a machine will demonstrate its ability to write TV westerns. Viewers watching the new TV series may be convinced, much of the time, that the machine is already at work. Among the latest arrivals, including some notable exceptions to the machine-tooled mediocrity...
Member states of the United Nations seem more willing to work smoothly together in science than in politics. This week the first phase of a U.N. global weather information service went into operation. Its four communication centers are at New York, Frankfurt, New Delhi-and Moscow. They are connected by radio or land-line teletypewriter circuits, and their job is to gather weather data from their areas of responsibility and pass it along to the others, either direct or by relay. In the spring of 1961 a Tokyo center will start work, completing the five-station chain around the Northern...