Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachers try to ease the girls' anxieties and correct their misunderstandings about pregnancy. One Detroit girl, for example, had been told by her mother that someone must die for everyone who is born-and believed it when her father died just before she gave birth to her baby. The center specialists also shun moralizing. "We do not condone the pregnancy," says Chicago Teacher Sarah Jackson, "but we try to give the girls a feeling of human dignity...
Walk-Off Roles. Berry and Ludwig have been scrapping at the Met for the past four months, beginning with Die Frau ohne Schatten, in which she was a shrewish wife trying to browbeat her husband into submission. Their portrayal achieved such success (TIME, Oct. 14) that, ever since, the Berrys have been the absolute berries with Met audiences and one of the most popular singing teams ever to command the Met stage...
Last week the battling Berrys left Manhattan for their annual hitch at the Vienna State Opera. Met audiences consoled themselves with the knowledge that the couple will be back on stage next season in a new production of Wagner's Die Walküre, which calls for them to square off and fight it out as a pair of unhappily married gods...
...with death at their elbows. When John Glenn returned from his harrowing trip, he cautioned: "We are going to have failures. There are going to be sacrifices made in the program; we have been lucky so far." Grissom himself said in words that may long be remembered: "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life...
...exchange their hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...