Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main Point." "Our system of railroads is likely to be completely knocked out, at least for the moment. Our system of roads will stand up [except for] vital spots such as bridges." So the U.S. should store road-repair equipment near the vulnerable points "in such a way that transportation throughout the country will not even lag. We can be back in business within a few hours of any attack." Similarly, the U.S. could store fleets of trucks, gasoline supplies, power units ("nuclear energy might be the best"), spare parts, machine tools...
...Paul Rogers, as Macbeth, is marvelous. Probably the outstanding member of the troop, he grows with Macbeth to a superb fiery level. His violent face and boiling characterization is what the role of Macbeth deserves. Coral Browne's Lady Macbeth, though, was intense but somewhat bouncy. She looked wrong, except, perhaps, in her sleep-walking scene. To fulfill my demands for the role of Lady Macbeth would take a rare actress, which, I am afraid, Miss Browne is not. John Neville as MacDuff, Jeremy Brett as Malcolm, and Jack Gwillim as Banquo give distinctive performances, and the lesser roles...
...M.I.T. yesterday. The Crimson team, playing without its first and second men, Jerry Emmett and Charlie Poletti, lost only one of twenty-eight games played. Members of the team are: Al Vinton, John Scullin, Nick Lamont, Mike Humphries, Alan Blackner, Toby Gallaway, Pete Keyes, Willie Sutton, and Denny Briggs. Except for Sutton's 3-1 score, all the results of yesterday's matches were...
...program will have any effect on us, except in isolated cases," said Armstrong. "The student's chances of being drafted while still at college are very remote...
...authors contend that total war between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, while possible, is too theoretical to permit reasonable speculations. They also dismiss the likelihood, except in the satellite countries, of the overthrow of modern totalitarian regimes by internal revolution...