Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stationmaster was so right. Last week, before a Bavarian judge, Oskar and his fireman admitted that before boarding D-961 they had each downed five pints of strong Austrian beer and three Stamperln of liqueur. When the judge asked how big a Stamperl is, Oskar sheepishly pulled a liqueur glass from his pocket. For their wild night, the injuries to eleven of the 720 passengers, and the damages to six railway cars, the judge gave Oskar 18 months in prison and his fireman a year...
...GLASS-INDUSTRY SLUMP is growing so acute (because of 200% jump in cut-rate imports since 1954) that prices of heavy sheet window glass and light picture-frame glass are being lowered 7% to 16%. Big companies, operating some plants at 50% to 75% capacity, are going along with cuts started by Libbey-Owens-Ford to match foreign prices, but complain that reductions are unrealistic because glass workers' wages will soon rise about 12? an hour...
...airlines for 20 years have offered passengers a cheery glass aloft on foreign flights, on some domestic nights since 1949. But some Congressmen have long urged aerial prohibition, and last year the airlines headed off possible action by limiting passengers to two 1.6-oz. drinks on domestic flights. Even that is not enough for South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Oregon's Senator Richard L. Neuberger, both teetotalers. Last week, in two bills, they called for prohibition on both domestic and foreign nights...
...toned opening scene, audiences at Tanglewood's Theater-Concert Hall were introduced last week to a new one-act trilingual opera entitled Tale for a Deaf Ear, by Manhattan Composer Mark Bucci (rhymes with kootchy). For the Gateses, things quickly go from bad to hideous; Laura tosses a glass of Scotch in Tracy's face, and Tracy, rising to slug her, falls to the floor, dead of a heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles are enacted...
...airplanes and missiles, they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated a new plan for the chapel. It had a hard time making up its mind...