Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...question of how to perfect the pool systems so that they can absorb major disturbances without being pulled down. Only two things seemed certain at week's end. It had been, as Texas' Democratic Representative Walter Rogers, chairman of the House Interior Committee's power subcommittee, wryly noted, "a hell of a flick." And it could well happen again...
...also against the capricious disobedience of the energy that he has enslaved. Most Americans were shocked by the number of airports, subways, commuter trains, hospitals and highways that lack auxiliary power systems. Without such elementary precautions, another massive blackout, say in midwinter, could prove far more calamitous than "a hell of a flick." As it was, for most of those who slogged through it, memories...
...High School. The firm's success arises from thorough planning and from shunning what Michigan State Education Professor Donald Leu terms "parachute surveys," in which a consultant "drops in, studies the situation, and runs like hell." Engelhardt sticks around to face all the local pressures, averages four nights a week on some school stage patiently explaining his proposals. He pins down his arguments with facts, rarely retreats. When a woman at a Cape Cod meeting demanded to know what the alternatives to Engelhardt's plans were, he replied dryly: "A second-rate school system...
Died. Andrew Joseph Gillis, 69, hell-raising ofttime mayor of Newburyport, Mass. (pop. 14,100), a brawling Irishman known as "Bossy," who bulled his way through six sporadic two-year terms between 1927 and 1959, engaging in such shenanigans (chopping down city-owned trees, libeling a judge) that he was arrested countless times, sentenced to two jail terms, and finally proved too much even for the whimsical citizens of his old seafaring town;* of a heart attack two days after losing his 20th bid for mayor; in Newburyport...