Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
...party (between 60 and 70) will sail April 4 on the American Export Lines' S.S. Constitution. Reported Herald Tribune Columnist Hy Gardner indignantly: "Miss Grace Kelly ordered the ship's officials to deny first-class privileges to the press and to keep them confined to cabin class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested that a way be found to keep newsmen at a distance. But when the howl went...
...Nigger Jeff tells with blind pity the story of a lynching, which ends with a mother's moans in a darkened cabin and the resolve of a newspaperman...
...space plane's top speed will be about Mach 5 (3,500 m.p.h.), and the whole flight will take, at most, 20 minutes, covering a horizontal distance of some 500 miles. The pilot will have to be provided with air, presumably by pressurizing his cabin, but this will not be much of a problem for so short a time. Solar heating and cosmic rays will be no problem either...
...predestiny is an old psychological trump, but it still takes tricks, particularly when played by a master, in this case Director Leslie Norman, who produced The Cruel Sea. He manages to set the mood exactly-and somehow he keeps the audience from going claustrophobic in the cramped Dakota cabin. Best of all is the picture's sense-a very British sense-of straight-faced tease...