Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still fresh and unwilted by the heat are Little Mary Sunshine, a crisp, straight-faced spoof of the Grand Old Operettas; The Balcony, Jean Genet's surrealist universe ensconced in a brothel; The Connection, a pad full of Pirandelloish characters waiting, not for Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square...
...Pacific Ocean 60 miles by 200 miles in size. It hit its target with an accuracy that proved embarrassing to the Air Force: C-119 planes assigned to pluck the capsule from the air with grapples were saturated with radio signals from directly overhead, could not get a fix on its position...
...that crashed mysteriously in North Carolina last January, killing all 34 on board, was destroyed by a bomb that went off near the seat of Julian Frank, a financially troubled Manhattan lawyer who had just taken out about $1,000,000 in insurance. But the board did not fix responsibility on Frank, and the issue is still to be determined by the FBI. In U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., the insurance companies are arguing that, since Frank committed suicide, they are absolved from having to pay on his policies. Frank's widow contends that her husband...
...instructors were still droning through confusing, poorly illustrated lectures more likely to put students to sleep than turn them into well-trained technicians. Says Polich: "In the old days we used to hand the student 62 Ibs. of manuals and say, 'I'm gonna learn you to fix this.' " A reserve officer in the engineers, who saw action at Cassino (Bronze Star for clearing minefields) and decided to make soldiering a career, Polich abruptly discarded the old methods and set out to bring the twelve-week school up to date...
...dust-up and Nikita Khrushchev's party-line attack on Eisenhower at the summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow to the U.S. image. Allies were apprehensive because the U.S. had allowed itself to get in such a fix. Peking and Moscow were jubilant; one called the President "a rat," the other called him "a snake...