Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost-$350,000-was high. But then so is the fountain, which is designed to shoot a steady stream of water 600 ft. up into the air. It is, in fact, the highest in the world. (Switzerland's Jet d'Eau, rising 426 ft. out of Lake Geneva, provided the inspiration...
...ranch" even has air service. Owned by Rick Blakemore, an unpaid deputy sheriff of Nye County, Mustang Air Service operates two Cessna 206s on the run between Las Vegas and Tonopah, making seven stops en route at bordellos like Cottontail Ranch. In addition to transporting Johns named Smith, "I fly the girls to and from the houses and take the doctor and the county health officer on regular Saturday inspection tours," says Blakemore. He performs other official functions, like fingerprinting the prostitutes in each brothel for the sheriff's office files. "This is a dirty, rotten business," he cheerfully...
During its six years on the air, Children's Theater has practiced what Heinemann preaches. It has talked up to children with such varied fare as a musical version of James Thurber's fantasy Quillow and the Giant, a dramatic adaptation of E. B. White's classic Stuart Little and an hour of music by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Earlier this year Theater presented a ballet version of Little Women narrated by Geraldine Page...
...says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer for their branch of service, suffer fewer pangs than the wives of presumably less enthusiastic Army draftees. In recent months, widespread public discouragement over the Viet Nam war has begun to bother military wives. "A man will do anything, and his wife will...
Mosley recreates a climate of haplessness. French Premier Edouard Daladier, Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Beneš and even Mussolini seemed as out of step with history as Chamberlain. They were obsolete men (in the McLuhan sense) when compared to an eerily turned-on Hitler. Czechoslovakia, with a modern air force and a well-trained army, put up no resistance. It was, alas, Poland that stood firm: the only trouble was, as Mosley observes, "When the Poles saber-rattled it was actually sabers they were rattling...