Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
...From World War II until 1953, our country's long-range ballistic missile program was as dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...
...trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated the performers to inventive improvisation...
...approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted: "The Lisbon goals are as dead as a dodo." * All atomic weapons would not only be U.S. made, but also U.S. triggered. By act of Congress, no other nation is allowed in on U.S. atomic weapons. Gruenther would like to change this out-of-date provision (which irritates allies and complicates procedures) so that Canada and Britain, the other...
...beyond the wildest dreams of the ex-Marine ecologist. His assignment: to travel through the Near East and Southeast Asia, paying calls on animals threatened with extinction, and try to figure out how to keep them from following the dodo. Last week Talbot was back in the U.S., having escaped extinction himself on several occasions by a narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love...