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Movie cameras and crews will invade Cambridge late this spring to film scenes for the screen adaptation of The Fume of Poppies, a novel by Jonathan Kosol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard May Be Site Of Movie Next Spring | 1/8/1964 | See Source »

...reservations operations, but more than just business considerations prompted Pat Patterson to introduce one-class service. Two years ago, when a United DC-8 ran off a runway in Denver and hit a truck, 16 passengers died not from the impact of the crash but from burns and fume inhalation after crowded conditions in the coach section prevented them from getting out. Patterson is still bothered by the tragedy. Asks he: "Do narrow aisles and sardine seating provide adequate evacuation of jet aircraft? In all good conscience, just how many passengers can you squeeze into a plane?" Significantly, Patterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Class Warfare | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...roof than to see his exclusive stories turn up without credit in the next edition of the rival newspaper or hear them on a local radio station's newscast. The practice is so widespread and so deep-rooted in tradition that most editors do no more than fume about it. One who did is Managing Editor Shandy Hill of Pennsylvania's Pottstown Mercury, who was irked for years by what he claimed was the lifting of his news items by a local broadcaster. After a long battle with Pottstown's WPAZ, Hill last week had the satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Warning to Pirates | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...joined in a protest demonstration. More ominous yet, French Minister of Industry Michel Maurice-Bokanowski hustled to the unions' support, thundering: "In the future, new foreign investment programs, particularly from U.S. firms, must be examined with greatest care." In fact. Bokanowski was unlikely to do anything more than fume: he is one of the most pro-U.S. members of De Gaulle's Cabinet and, in any case, both French law and the reciprocal trade agreement between France and the U.S. bar him from doing much to curtail U.S. investment. But his anger rejected a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: All Gall | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Britain's Lord Home must never fume, even if people pronounce his name to rhyme with gnome instead of plume. He is, after all, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, the model of a modern diplomat, discreeter than Nikita, never brusque with Rusk. But the other night Lord Home may have wanted to fume, or at least show a bit of honest gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: You Can't Go, Home, Again | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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