Word: erful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Miles to Midnight. Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins in a thriller about a ne'er-do-well who escapes from a plane wreck and involves his wife in a plot to collect his life insurance. It is good, solid, black-and-white suspense stuff...
Five Miles to Midnight. Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins in a thriller that might have been a sort of Psycaccio. But this film about a neurotic ne'er-do-well who escapes from a plane wreck believed to have killed him and forces his wife to go along with a plot to collect his life insurance, is good, solid black-and-white suspense stuff...
...Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos: giant rotary dumpers empty four railroad gondolas simultaneously, and within minutes electronically mix the different coals into a desired blend...
Mountains of Ice. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1805, the second son of a Baptist mother and ne'er-do-well father. He early felt the call to serve God and humanity. At 13, he was hired by a newspaper, and before long he was writing editorials denouncing the sins of the world. "Slowly the young man was mastering the difficult art of avoiding argument," writes Thomas. "He simply was not happy with ideas." But he occasionally was moved to verse...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stood at complete and unmilitary ease behind the lectern on the stage of the State Department auditorium. In cool and well-punctuated sentences, with never an uh or an er, he recited fact after fact, figure after figure, in response to the blunt questions of newsmen...