Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aeroflot already reaches 16 foreign countries from Norway to North Korea, flies 58,000 route miles v. 64,000 for Pan American World Airways, the longest U.S. flag carrier. Last month Aeroflot won Britain's approval for flights to London, is expected to start service next fall. Now Aeroflot is dickering for landing rights in France and Holland, is expected to go after rights in the U.S. as soon as it gets enough long-range jets to fly from Moscow to New York, probably within the year...
What is particularly amazing is this film's ability to create an authentic empathy for shallow flag-waving, and if we all know in our hearts that war is not glorious, and the Russians must know this most of all after Stalingrad, the vision of national and violent heroism still comes alive and intoxicating for the moment, even transplanted out of the culture that it speaks...
...correct your book critic's implication that Rally Round the Flag, Boys! [Dec. 30] is being enjoyed only by the retarded, may I point out that the book received excellent notices in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and a couple of hundred other newspapers...
...acrobat for acrobat, lady fiddler for lady fiddler, fight champ for fight loser (as Sullivan and Allen did after the Patterson-Rademacher fight) and, in the end, even blow for blow. When the singer socked the comedian, remarked one character, "it was like George Washington spitting on the American flag...
...sport is highly organized, and many of the boys who build do-it-yourself rockets are planning to go into the missile business when they finish school. Some of their rockets are semiprofessional jobs with recovery parachutes and other fancy features. They are launched with proper precautions: dugouts, red flag, a countdown, all the fixings...