Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind BOAC was Pan American World Airways, whose Boeing 707 was cleared for operation at Idlewild, but was still undergoing testing at London Airport. Racing one another, as the old Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads had once muscled each other in their drive to roll back the Western frontiers, Pan Am and BOAC had each charged into jet transport head on, in determination to be first across the Atlantic. Pan Am's consolation: soon the U.S. line will be flying transatlantic jets daily, while BOAC will run once a week until it receives shipment of new planes...
...terse Supreme Court ruling of last month which turned down the plea of the Little Rock school board for a delay of 2½ years in resuming its gradual integration program. At that time, trying to beat the date set for reopening of Little Rock's beleaguered Central High School, the court did not take time to write a full opinion. It more than made up for the deficit last week, with all nine Justices not only concurring but-an unusual move-sharing in the authorship of the 5,000 words read by Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...Texas millionaire who made inquiries. Even less appealing was the condition of the 40-room, 16th century Chateau de Vauvenargues in sunny Provence. Fortnight ago, the pleased master of Vauvenargues showed up for a housewarming. At first Homeowner Pablo Picasso thought that the dank castle, which has no central heating and little plumbing, would make a fine warehouse, later decided to move in himself. Proletarian Pablo would undoubtedly forgo the title (marquis) that goes with the moldy heap, but the price of restoration-an estimated $500,000-would give him an even better one: France's most richly housed...
Author Beckett (Waiting For Godot) himself never answers these questions about his central character. His identity and his past remain obscure-beyond the fact that Mahood's entire family was killed off by sausage poisoning. But it does not take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett's savage symbol for mankind. Beckett's great strength is to make his readers uneasy. Like all Beckettmen, Mahood echoes the old existentialist plaint that he did not ask to be born and that life's mess is not of his making. Despairingly he sums...
...Pennsylvania, biggest in the industry, reported an August profit of $3,288,600, slightly ahead of August 1957; the New York Central squeaked into the black by $274,777. Western roads showed their highest earnings of the year; Southern Pacific's August earnings of $5,200,000 topped August 1957 by $528,000. Reflecting the improved earnings picture, the Dow Jones rail average on the New York Stock Exchange climbed to a 1958 high of 141.80, helped pace the industrials to another alltime high...