Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of trials and tribulations for Dr. J. Paul Mather, president of the University of Massachusetts and center of one of the greatest educational controversies in the history of this state. During the six years of his fight to achieve relative independence from the state governmental bureaucracy his black hair has turned almost white and his forehead became crossed with lines of worry; aged 44, Mather looks closer...
Delwood leaned back in his chair and looked at the acoustical ceiling with a self-satisfied air. Then he turned to the pad and surveyed his handiwork. His eye fell on the black column...
...planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months of 1959 to 702 flights, compared with 467 for the same...
...long in coming; half a dozen enlisted men and Sulgrave are the only survivors. It is then that the Negroes get a grisly, ironic revenge on the commander. Looking for his body, they find only the head and shoulders. Into the improvised coffin go arms and legs, black and white, sufficient to provide a corpse for the military funeral Commander Hake is to get back in the States...
...Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...