Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...
...smile. Up for Senate debate and voting was a Byrd-written amendment that would have refused to the Kennedy Administration its urgently requested authority to place the U.S.'s $8.8 billion foreign aid program on a five-year basis, without having to return to Congress with a begging bowl each year. Kennedy's proposal made sense in the need to be able to match Khrushchev in long-term commitments to needy nations. But Congressmen do not lightly surrender the power of the purse as a lever on the Executive. Harry Byrd, dean of Senate conservatives and as accurate...
...contestants at Wichita needed thermals-columns of warm air-to stay aloft and they knew just how to find them. Towed to 2,000 ft. by powered aircraft, the sailplaners looked first for a "salad bowl"-a cluster of rising sailplanes already airborne and circling slowly, as if stirred by some giant ladle. Failing that, the entrants looked for the big cotton bolls of cumulus clouds-the typical sign of updrafts-or for wheeling hawks, those skillful natural riders of the wind. Having hooked a thermal, the sail-planers got from it every last inch of altitude, then drifted...
...Hollywood Bowl, while the symphony orchestra plays live, a man watches transfixed as he listens to the fights over his earpieces. In drive-in movies, canny audiences follow the picture and their favorite disk jockey simultaneously, presumably liking neither well enough to concentrate...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The grapes of wrath are pressed again as Walter Cronkite & Co. revisit The Dust Bowl, interviewing farmers who stayed with the land and are still there...