Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of featherbedding, Republic Steel Co. pointed to crane operators. Years ago, each mill crane got a double crew so that crane-men overheated from lifting hot steel could get out and cool off. New cranes are air-conditioned, but they still have double crews...
Atlas. The Air Force's most advanced intercontinental ballistic projectile was scheduled to be operational in limited numbers by now, but five successive failures prompted Defense Secretary Neil McElroy to postpone the readiness date by at least 60 days (TIME, July 6). Before last week's launchings, the Air Force and Convair, the makers of the ICBM, put out word that Atlas was on the mend, and that the causes of the failures had been traced and corrected. Last week the Air Force tried four times to launch another Atlas. Because of assorted bugs, it never left...
Music hours are held Saturdays from three to five p.m. and Sundays from four to six p.m. in the newly air-conditioned Grays Hall Common Room...
...wisdom of both these alternatives is dubious, but no more so, perhaps, than that of exposing the theatre-going population of the Boston area to the night air past its bedtime. When we succeed in breeding our descendants into supermen, a super-theatre may come into being to present Man and Superman entire. In the meantime, prematurely-born members of the super-audience will have, regrettably, to content themselves with the truncated splendors of such productions as this fine one at Wellesley...
...Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed to his ideas with any great intensity of the "moral passion" he talks about. It becomes a matter of little significance that the revolutionary activities of this Tanner should be circumscribed by marriage. (His air of frivolity vanishes during the hell scene, but here his attempt at the aristocratic chill becoming to Don Juan degenerates sometimes into mere posturing...