Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute experimental masterpiece called To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, which so far has only been shown at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The picture will not be shown anywhere else until after the fair closes next autumn...
...Cheyenne Autumn has everything it takes to make a great western epic, except greatness. In her book based on a bleak episode of American history, Mari Sandoz re-created the ordeal of 286 Cheyenne Indians, stung by the indignities of exile on a reservation, who in 1878 fought and starved and struggled through a 1,500-mile journey from Oklahoma's Indian Territory to their homeland in eastern Montana. En route, with U.S. Army units ever at their heels, they were bedeviled by bad weather, bitter dissension, and the white man's cruelty. In this wayward...
Still Compassionate. With the opening steel skirmish won, Wilson turned coolly to the next item on his agenda, an emergency "autumn budget" designed to ease Britain's painful $2 billion balance-of-payments deficit until the regular budget is drawn up in April. At the same time, Wilson saw a chance to nail down votes for a probable spring election by passing some promised social-welfare measures...
...other two stories are a chore to read. In "In the Autumn the Boy" Gail Borden develops a cumbersome word-joining technique to describe in nine pages what would have been vivider in one: "Crippled vision blurs, shuffles sideways, sees what seems caught form crushed within heathaze...
...autumn-foliaged town of Tyngsboro, Mass., the U.S. space program last week got a handsome present. It is the world's most sensitive radio antenna, a 120-ft. aluminum dish named Haystack for the New England hill on which it rests. Balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel, protected from the weather by a golf-ball-looking dome that is the world's largest metal-frame radome, Haystack is now tuned and ready. Its tasks will range from radar tracking of a satellite 20,000 miles in space to holding a two-way radio conversation with a speeding...