Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10:30 p.m.). "The World of Hart Crane" is reconstructed through the memories of friends and associates, his memorabilia and a presentation of some of his poems...
...chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown terminal...
...that the Faculty is beginning to crawl out from their bomb shelters, they ask us to reason with them once more as a "liberal" community. But somehow their pleas will ever sound the same again. Thomas S. Crane...
Speaking against the Sullivan resolution, Mrs. Ackermann said "I don't think that President Pusey was right. I ask you to do our police department the service of looking into the charges of brutality." Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, who voted for the resolution, answered Mrs. Ackermann by saying that the "isolated cases of brutality are incidental. The fundamental question is whether you take a stand against self-proclaimed revolutionaries." Crane also said that he personally witnessed the pilferage of desks in the basement of University Hall. "I saw one young person take out of a desk a roll...
Dykes Askew Simmons, small-time Texas criminal and sometime crane operator, did not intend to stay long in Mexico when he drove there on a vacation in 1959. But after three young Mexicans were murdered by a lone man not far from where he crossed the border, his plans were abruptly changed. One of the victims did not die immediately, and she identified Simmons as her assailant. Though the dying girl had also identified a variety of other persons as the killer-including her doctor -Simmons was convicted and sentenced to death. He was the first American ever...