Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first ballot box, the minister, his .38-cal. revolver prominently displayed on his desk, said that the citizens had voted for Pérez Jiménez in overwhelming numbers...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
John Crow was too modest. At week's end he was on every All-America team worthy of the name (see box), and in an overwhelming vote by sportswriters, he won the Heisman Trophy as outstanding college football player of 1957. Chicago's professional Cardinals, entitled to first-draft choice because they have the worst record in the league, brightened their 1958 prospects by choosing Crow to team up with Rice's Quarterback King Hill* in the rejuvenation of the Cardinals' backfield...
Long before the end-zone seats for the Baltimore Colts-San Francisco Forty Niners football game went on sale last week, one fan camped out in front of the box office. He had a Thermos of coffee, a blanket, and an electric razor. "After I buy my ticket," he explained, "I'll go to a service station and shave. I've got to look presentable for the Forty Niners...
...FLYING BOX, by Mary McMinnies. An astonishingly good first novel about fumbling Britons who still pretend that they are carrying the white man's burden in Malaya. The decline and fall of Empire is measured by the spurious successes of a black-marketeering London spiv who finds loot among the ruins...