Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touching down at Boston's Logan Airport in the small hours one morning last week after a flight from New York, American Airlines Flight 116 routinely rolled to the terminal, discharged 62 passengers. Then, in a grim departure from routine, the DC-6-strikebound American's last flight-rolled away to join 194 other planes already grounded indefinitely at airports around the U.S. Unable to reach agreement on a new contract covering its 1,500 American Airlines members, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association highest salaried and most intensively trained of all U.S. unions, had struck...
...poetry-writing wholesale grocer, Rómulo Betancourt was born February 22, 1908 in the village of Guatire, 25 miles from Caracas. In 1928, during his third year of law school, he took part in a series of demonstrations against Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. The grim strongman put the fiery student in ball-and-chain, later hounded him into exile in Colombia...
...producers' nightmares, there is one recurring terror: the Broadway opening with a surefire smash, and no reviewers aboard to hail it-a fate nearly as bad as the common torture of watching the grim-faced judges show up to pan a feared-for turkey. Last week one dreamed terror became real. A strike forced Manhattan's seven major dailies into silence (see PRESS) and only one of the city's four new Broadway plays (S. N. Behrman's The Cold Wind and the Warm) had the full tide of critical scrutiny. Dutifully, reviewers hunched down...
...GLASS ROSE, by Richard Bankowsky. In a year of good first novels, this one tried for much and achieved most of it. A grim, sadly true story of family disintegration in which a Polish immigrant father is brought to despair and hands on a shameful legacy to his daughter...
...grim, grey pile beside the Charles River looks chilly on a summer day, and in December seems too austere to support life. But only one or two other U.S. centers of science have been as fruitful during the past decade as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last week M.I.T. named as its new president a man who. with outgoing President James R. Killian Jr., deserves a large measure of the credit: Chancellor Julius Adams Stratton...