Word: cyruses
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...would improve both the performance's pace and its credibility. There is little sense of dramatic response between one character and another. Eugene Pell as the Merchant is the major offender, with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch with the serious spirit of the play...
...owners, ranging from the president of Lima's telephone company to a 13-year-old Citizen carrier boy. Publishers James Howenstine and Sam Kamin had nothing but good news. Founded on $300,000 to fight the 25-year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned it into a soapbox for his ultrareactionary views, the Citizen had edged out of the red after only two months. "We were warned," said Publisher Howenstine, "that a new paper couldn't expect to make a profit in less than two years...
...demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with trade unions." Then newsmen gathered for a press conference got the news most of Canada has been waiting for: Krupp and four other German steelmakers have joined forces with a group of Canadian and U.S. interests headed by Nova Scotia-born Cyrus Eaton. 73, to develop a giant deposit of iron ore in Quebec's Ungava Bay region...
Next day, with Cyrus Eaton Jr. acting as host and guide, Krupp and his party boarded an airplane for the first leg of a 1,000-mile flight to Ungava Bay. But when the plane landed at Schefferville. Krupp learned that his mother, Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, had died in Essen. He hurried to New York to catch an airliner home to Germany, while Eaton and the rest of the Krupp party continued the flight to Ungava...
Last week Cyrus Gordon, professor of Near Eastern languages at Brandeis University, offered a solution to the mystery. Linear A, says he, does indeed use Minoan signs, but these parallel Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) syllables. Just as Ventris' discovery revealed that the Achaeans of the Greek mainland were not the illiterates that a reading of Homer suggests, but might well have been the civilized conquerors of Crete, so Gordon's thesis sheds a whole new light on the possible foundations of Greek civilization itself...