Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land . . . they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight...
...Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems to be worth millions). Also, Maverick for the first time kicked dust into the face of the almost peerless Jack Benny...
...Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save bad men!" To busy herself off the set, Minou is grinding out a novel, The Reptiles of Light, a sad story of a little blind girl. Also, the heat and dust of the studio have made her yearn for the sea, with this result...
...legally." Archives are widely scattered, often poorly indexed, studded with tantalizing gaps left by oversight, fire and disintegration. Nitrate-base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet visible to the public-enough to provide 3^ years of solid viewing, day and night...
BISHOP JOSEPH KIWANUKA, of Masaka in Uganda, was consecrated at Rome in 1939, the first native African bishop of modern times. Swirling round his diocese in a 1956 Chevrolet and a cloud of dust. Bishop Kiwanuka, 58, oversees the work of 58 African priests, plus 15 white priests who work as teachers in schools and seminaries, are being replaced as native priests are trained to fill their posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem...