Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beck had been seriously interested in cleaning up the I.B.T., one of his first targets should have been New York, where a specially created federal grand jury last week began an investigation of seven racket-linked teamster locals that Hoffa recently set up to insure the election of pro-Hoffa officers by the New York Teamsters Joint Council. (The election itself is being disputed in the courts.) Beck, however, professed a complete lack of interest in the New York situation. He insisted solemnly that "in my opinion it was an honest election." He also made it clear that the shelving...
West yearns for a good look at Ulanova, have trimmed and tailored Prokofiev's work into a 96-minute color film. The Ballet of Romeo and Juliet. This week the film, the first feature-length movie of an entire ballet, which took a 1955 Cannes Film Festival grand prize, begins its first limited showings in the U.S., will be shown nationally next fall. It has its shortcomings as cinema, and it has a storybook languor that seems old-fashioned in contrast to the fast pace of U.S. ballet, but it makes excitingly good on its promise of a look...
...rapid Argentine was being remarkably casual with a big if. In all the Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...
...Only 20 yards from the wire, Devon Loch, Queen Mother Elizabeth's big brown gelding, had England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...
...performance last week an inflated nine-foot lobster and a cardboard octopus of grand design decorated the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall as schoolchildren and proud parents filed in to hear the Cincinnati Symphony do Sea Secrets, a Cantata for Speakers, Chorus and Orchestra...