Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater's fifth season British Director Tyrone Guthrie has offered a Mary Stuart that stresses, that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns...
...been released. Of 67 million persons in the top priority bracket (those under 20 and pregnant women). 25 million have had the recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply...
AIRPORTS FOR THE JET AGE...
...With the jet air age expected to begin late next year, when the first 600-m.p.h. jet transports are delivered to domestic airlines, few U.S. cities will be ready to handle either the big planes or the flood of new travelers riding in them. During the twelve months ending last March, air traffic at a dozen leading U.S. airports jumped 19%; with jets that can carry up to 140 passengers, v. 90 for the biggest piston-engine plane, traffic volume will soon rise even faster. But most cities are still dragging their heels on airport-improvement plans. "Unless some...
...that can withstand almost any amount of pounding. It has a new approach lighting system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also voted $18 million for new hangars and a freight terminal to make Logan even more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city...