Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward week's end, the setting changed. The steel-grey Hudson and its heroic cliffs gave place to the Nittany Valley of Pennsylvania, rolling placidly southeast from the low green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...
...Green Apple. Of the brothers, Walter was the smallest (now 5 ft. 8½ in.) and the least brilliant in school. He flunked English and algebra. At 16, he quit to become an apprentice machinist at Wheeling Steel (11? an hour). In 1927 he went to Detroit to make big money...
Ford was retooling and thousands were laid off, but, after standing in line at dawn daily for a week, Reuther got a job at Briggs (85? an hour). "I looked like I fell off a green apple tree," he later recalled. Soon he got a better job ($1.10 an hour) at Ford as a tool-and-die leader bossing 40 men. He discovered his own talents. He also discovered that he was not very interested in making money...
After that, there was a lyrical interlude about a pair of magical serpents, one white, one green, who turn themselves into girls, one loving, one murderous. Then followed a sensational display of acting, dancing and pantomime called Troubles in the Heavenly Kingdom, in which a talented performer named Wang Ming-chung played the part of the immortal Monkey King who defeated the gods in a rough-and-tumble battle. Finally came an acrobatic ballet and a short, exotic concert on stage, featuring such instruments as the hsiao (bamboo flute), sheng (a super mouth organ), hsiao-na (a straight wooden bugle...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...