Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses. Then Patrolman Clarence Kerr, leaving the Biltmore Theater with his wife, spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched the rooftops. Scores of radio and TV broadcasts told Chicagoans that...
...crazy money," where he found only a day-to-day, dreamless darkness-then a dreary round of petty stickups, a dead cop, the final terror of sitting on a couch, holding an innocent family at bay. Now, despite "the grief I'm causin' Ma," there was no exit. "I wouldn't last four hours if I went out on the street. Those coppers wouldn't give me a chance...
...Laughing Exit. Across the Potomac at Boiling Air Force Base that afternoon, the Pentagon sped Talbott's departure with one of the fanciest farewells in Washington's history. Hurricane Connie's approach cut the planned aerial fly-over from 150 planes to ten B-47 jet bombers, but three Cabinet members watched Wilson pin the Medal of Freedom on Talbott (for meritorious service), 1,800 troops paraded, and the Air Force Band played So Long, It's Been Good to Know...
...notable Iago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello-throw the skids under one of the first operas ever written, Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607). From the wings issued a flying wedge of furies, shades and demons, screaming insults at the baritone, who made a hurried and unheroic exit. Umberto and his lady rose uncertainly as the audience broke into loud jeers, cheers and whistles. The conductor appeared onstage and stammered, "My humblest apologies, Your Majesties," before he burst into tears...
...anti-business talk, not much came of it. For the first time in years. Democrats made no attempt to grant gains to organized labor at the businessman's expense. Nor did Congress pass any law punitive to business. It roundly endorsed the Government's exit from the synthetic-rubber industry, but it dragged its feet on other Administration attempts to take the Government out of competition with private enterprise. To the dismay of many industrialists, e.g., Southern cotton manufacturers, it raised the minimum wage from 75? to $1 ; to the relief of most employers it postponed a boost...