Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after weeks of fruitless argument during which the Vienna police remained adamant, Rudolph moved on to Linz and climbed into his bottle. It was a huge, steel-framed affair, seven feet tall. Taking with him an air mattress, a camp stool and two Syrian snakes "for company," Rudolph entered one side of the bottle. Then arc welders sealed him in, leaving only an 8-in. bottleneck open at the top. For the next year, Rudolph plans to live in bottled luxury on vitamin pills and write his memoirs. And if no one comes to see him? Well...
...which was won on a record-breaking performance. Ulen has John McNamara, Dave Hedberg, and Captain Ron Huebsch--all seniors--for the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events. McNamara won at Springfield in 60-yard sprint-ten yards longer because the Springfield pool is a 20-yard affair, rather than the customary 25. Hedberg scored a double victory, in the 100 and 220 freestyle races...
Sunday's debate, however, was a less formal affair than the Oxford match. Janner and Lloyd have not debated together as a team before, while the prison combination was an experienced duet. Further-more, the Law students were hampered in their support of the welfare state by the fact that Lloyd is by private conviction a firm Conservative...
...Voice of the Turtle, the play introduces two kinds of modern girl. One (Vicki Cummings), worldly and anxious for security and comfort, snares a conventionally religious Roman Catholic; their life is shallow but unshaken. The other girl (Viveca Lindfors), serious and independent-minded, rushes into an intense love affair with a bitter, harshly unsentimental young writer who, when she becomes pregnant, refuses to marry her. She, on the brink of suicide, responds to some inner voice; he, finally on the brink of despair, returns...
...tense report of a tragic effort, made with her husband, to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. Aldous Huxley made an appearance with an urbane history of some 17th century French Ursuline nuns who were possessed by The Devils of London. Rome and a Villa, an intellectual love affair that Author Eleanor Clark carried on with the Eternal City, made better reading than all the year's travel books put together. The finest picture book of the year was Henri Carder-Bresson's book of magnificent photographs, The Decisive Moment...