Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary Ann Jordan, 20. Daughter of a Chicago municipal engineer, Mary Ann lived at home - but, on the fatal night last week, had been discussing Suzanne's wedding plans with her and had sneaked into the residence to spend the night with her future sister...
...comes to town with enough pink dismissal slips to put most of Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
Among these rivals, none has come back more dramatically from its dark days than TWA. It came the hard way-and by a circuitous route. TWA is one of the oldest and proudest of U.S. airlines. Yet only five years ago, the company seemed to be in a fatal dive. It was de moralized, litigation-lamed, and desperately short of the jets by then necessary to stay alive. TWA went into the red by no less than $38.7 million in 1961. Yet that same year, two happy things happened. First, the capricious hand of Billionaire Howard Hughes was lifted from...
Neither Right nor Left. Some observers feel that as a cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride...
...true that the mind can conceive unending webworks of intrigue, so it is that the Kennedy assassination will forever evoke suspicions, claims, counterclaims and new theories. He was shot with one bullet-no, two. He was killed by one man-no, two, or maybe three. The fatal bullet entered his neck-no, his back. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist-no, a right-winger. Kennedy ordered his own assassination-no, Lyndon Johnson...