Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fair Prospects. "Sure there's plenty of international competition," says Real-Aerovias President Linneu Gomes, "but we can beat it. We offer speed, service, safety and new planes." Real has built its fleet to 120 (v. Panagra's 19), and most of the other lines have big plans. The state-owned Argentine Airline is wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets...
...double-breasted blue suit over a long-sleeved blue pullover despite humid Texas temperatures in the 90s, owlish Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, 69, read his own verse to some 11,000 in Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should be so gloomy. There...
...week's end, the Dodgers were far back in sixth place. But so many fans turned out to watch the homers soar over the left-field screen that when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, the Dodgers drew the largest crowd ever to watch a National League night game (60,635). With all those paying guests, the Dodgers could well afford the modest cost ($2 apiece) of all those lost balls...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity set a new record Saturday to beat Princeton, MIT and Rutgers in the Compton Cup race. The varsity win was the climax of a day that saw the Crimson sweep four races at Princeton and five lightweight races at Dartmouth...
Coach Jack Barnaby said afterwards that he was "extremely proud of the boys for really tearing into Princeton. A fine upset win was in the making over the team that beat us 13 to 2 last spring," he added...