Word: coast-to-coast
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After four weeks of flexing its muscles at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Ballet (formerly known as Sadler's Wells) moved out to begin a four-month coast-to-coast tour. Along with its new name, the company brought five ballets previously unknown to U.S. audiences-including some of the most gaudily packaged merchandise it had ever displayed...
PULLMAN SLUMP caused by airplane competition will force Pennsylvania Railroad to halt coast-to-coast through-sleeper service, make transcontinental passengers go back to switching trains in Chicago. Each through sleeper needs 15 passengers to break even, has recently averaged only nine...
...London) evangelistic campaign he had ever preached. By the numbers, at least, it was also the most fruitful: 56,426 made "decisions for Christ" at Madison Square Garden (38,447 in London's Harringay Arena), and 30,523 made decisions as a result of Billy's coast-to-coast TV program. Of those making decisions at the Garden, 57% were from New York City, 36% from suburbs and exurbs-Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island...
...speed of the earth's rotation (1,080 m.p.h.), U.S. Marine Corps Major John H. Glenn Jr., 36, fell short of his hope, nevertheless last week jockeyed a pencil-nosed, silver-painted Navy F8U1 Crusader jet from Long Beach, Calif, to New York City for a new coast-to-coast record of 3 hr. 23 min. First to span the nation at supersonic speed, Pilot Glenn averaged 726 m.p.h. (or Mach 1.1 at his average flying altitude of 35,000 ft.), cut 21 minutes off the previous record established in March 1955 by Air Force Lieut. Colonel...
Defending the administration's $71,800,000,000 budget in a direct appeal to the people, the President said in a speech prepared for coast-to-coast television and radio broadcasts: "The plain truth is that the price of peace is high...