Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a new course this year," Adolph Samborski told the assembly. "You follow the fence until you reach Gate 12, then run along the outside until you reach Gate 18. There'll be someone there to direct you. Then you run across to the track and finish up there." Then Mr. Samborski good-naturedly got out of the way, and the race commenced...
...spurred by a strike of the Machinists, which shut down Capital Airlines over demands for an hourly raise of 42?. The Machinists have also threatened to strike Trans World Airlines and Eastern. All six airlines-American, Capital, Eastern, Pan American, T.W.A., United-have agreed to put on extra flights along routes they also serve to take care of the passengers of any struck line. The lines plan to make no profit on the overflow traffic. They will turn over all earnings, after taking out operating expenses, to the strikebound line. The pact's major immediate effect: competitors United, American...
...backyards, garage fronts and gardens from Arkansas to Albuquerque. Arkla alone has sold 22,000 in six months, and this year the industry's total is expected to top 300,000. In North Little Rock, the CAA approved a private airport's plans to install gas lamps along its modern runways. In Amarillo, Texas, where gas is cheap, gas lamps have appeared along highways and byways. The lanes of a new residential development now under construction are being lit by gas. Nonglaring, the gaslights are not only more economical than electric lights, but have another decided advantage outdoors...
...dashing of the second-generation collectors, has "found nothing astonishing in a life larded with blood-splattering parties, gatherings with public confessions and public disrobings, flagrant infidelities and hysterical rows," says Author Saarinen. A bouncy bit of heiress in a housecoat of peach-colored feathers, she always collected artists along with their art. Surrealism was her first great passion, and it took her into a marriage to Max Ernst. Abstract expressionism was her second, and included a penchant for Jackson Pollock as a man. Now, full of years and honor, she lives in a Venetian palace, paints her toes...
...numinous and vital symbols are somehow diminished into mere ideas; but then the ideas seem marvelously clever. And strong religious feelings are dissipated into a sort of arty, romantic, death-wishful mood that is often hard to distinguish from sentimentality; but then the mood is unfailingly hypnotic. Such qualities, along with the fact that the film is beautifully photographed and composed, should make it a very special sensation for moviegoers who like an occasional exotic tidbit-in this case, something that often has the horrible fascination of a candied tarantula...