Word: coast-to-coast
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Seldom in these days of coast-to-coast screens and retina-wrecking color is a play so tastefully transformed into a film. Scene after scene is played in sober old Tudor houses glozed by candlelight, or by the warm green verges of the New Forest. The costumes are rich, not gaudy, and the actors are borne lightly on the lucid stream of language that flows throughout the film. Even more mesmerically than he did in the play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen...
Howard Hughes, the billionaire eccentric, has had money and power in quantity. But nothing ever seemed to mean so much to him as his control of Trans World Airlines. A pilot obsessed, Hughes, now 60, once set a coast-to-coast speed record, flew round-the-world in 91 hours in 1938, conceived the Constellation airliner, was badly hurt in two crashes. He bought control of TWA from Lehman Bros, in 1939, becoming the only operating chief of a major U.S. airline who also owned it. After a long series of bitter battles with bankers and managers...
...Terrell fight was scared out of New York, Chicago, Miami, Louisville, and Huron. S.D., before it settled on the safe side of the border in Toronto. Amid the coast-to-coast chorus of National Anthem singing, the Chuvalo-for-Terrell switch barely made enough noise to get into the newspapers...
...coast-to-coast committee of college professors has called for a "National Teach-In Week" from March...
...Schine holdings, worth an estimated $150 million, brought the value of Wien and Helmsley's coast-to-coast collection up close to $900 million, three times that of the spread controlled by William Zeckendorf at his apogee six years ago. Says Helmsley: "We know of no private investors whose holdings are larger than ours...