Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan drew his pistol and shot out the lights. Rough times? Guy Martin, 75, who served in Ceylon, Burma and China, shook his head as he inspected a display of modern equipment like infrared binoculars. Said Martin: "We had parachutes and rifles, and that was about it." Adventure? James J. Angleton got into World War II as a private, entered the OSS and soon rose to be the OSS's chief of counterintelligence, while simultaneously commanding a regiment in Italy...
...display such sympathies in the Depression made management look benign. When Edsel Ford wanted to celebrate the Rouge complex and the auto industry, he got Rivera to paint a mural cycle in Detroit; it attracted 86,000 visitors in its first month. Rivera had no problems in casting American engineers as the heroes of a new age. Encouraged by this, John D. Rockefeller in 1932 commissioned a Rivera mural, Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future, for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Rivera put in a head...
...gigantic fireworks display high over Soldiers Field that will say goodbye...
...both Thursday and Friday nights Harvard's entertainers will also be on display. "The King Stag" will be performed at the American Repertory Theater, and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company will take the stage at the Hasty Pudding Theater. Choral performances and poetry readings, along with a special film compilation of Harvard in popular movies, help round out the evening...
...celebration's event of events is Saturday night's Soldiers Field Celebration. The show is being produced by Tommy Walker, the man who put on the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Before it ends in a display of fireworks, the 30,000 people who jam into Soldiers Field will hear the Boston Pops, see several undergraduate performing groups and--if they can make it--witness performances by Jack Lemmon '47 and other famous alumni from the world of entertainment...