Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy melodrama is by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make fast company for the long haul...
...shortage of radios required to maintain combat communications, whether at the walkie-talkie level of squad leader or at the more sophisticated level of division headquarters. Also in short supply: spotting equipment for mortars; warning systems to detect approaching air craft; good guidance and control systems to give fast, low-flying bombers pinpoint accuracy...
Highlight of the concert was Benjamin Britten's entrancing Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. The work is one of three that Britten has composed for the cellist since they became fast friends five years ago. At concert's end, the audience was ecstatic. And so was Rostropovich, alternately applauding the audience, Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, the London Symphony and Britten, who was sitting in a box with Leonard Bernstein. At the insistence of the audience, Britten left his box to conduct an encore...
...business that goes to foreign lines during a U.S. maritime strike never returns, and this time the American Marine Institute estimates that the permanent loss will be even greater. Already, U.S. flag vessels carry only 9.1% of all U.S. exports and imports-and the percentage is falling fast...
...expanded its toehold in Europe's fuel market from 2% to 3½% in the last two years; most experts predict that it will grab at least 10% by 1975, chiefly at the expense of coal's present 47% . Gas's share could grow twice that fast-to 20%-if it is priced low enough. Up to now gas prices have been kept close to those of rival fuels, partly because coal and oil companies own major interests in many gas-distribution combines and partly because so many governments are committed to subsidizing inefficient coal production...