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• Sundance Fest may not be about sales this year
The film, about a 1950s single mother in search of a wealthy suitor, is classic Sundance bait, but filmmakers and reps decided against taking the mid-range-budgeted film to Park City. Instead, they believe a more deliberate rollout to buyers will ...
• 7 movies that glamorize business travel
Johns plays the quintessential 1950s stewardess who falls in love with Stewart, moves in with him and then organizes his life. Corny, charming — and weirdly compelling because the plot is eerily similar to the mid-‘50s catastrophes that befell ...
• Veterans sue U.S. over military experiments
The vets volunteered for military experiments they say were part of a program started in the 1950s to test nerve agents, biological weapons and mind-control techniques. They allege in their federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco that they ...
• Bush headed to Midland, Texas on Jan. 20
Bush spent several of his boyhood years in Midland in the 1950s because his father, former President George H.W. Bush, had come to the area shortly after World War II in search of crude oil. Laura Bush grew up in Midland and returned frequently as ...
• U.S. deficit impact could be felt for decades
But when the war ended, defense spending plunged and the economy surged, bringing the ratio back down to 60 percent by the early 1950s. That’s about where it was in the late 1980s and early 1990s before concerted efforts by Congress and the White ...