Word: chutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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embassy residence in Vienna. Out of the residence door, like a broncobuster sprung from his chute, bounded John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He dashed down the steps to meet his bald, fat guest. "How are you?" he asked smilingly. "I'm glad to see you." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev grinned politely and shook Kennedy's hand. Thus, one cold, wet day last week, the youthful leader of the Western alliance greeted the tough leader of world Communism...
...capsule descended, swinging widely on its chute, and the choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. Though nothing could save this film from being touched by cliche, it is at least interesting as a curiosity piece. Stars Brando and Karl Malden, off the 'chute. Daily...
...skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...
...gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest...