Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurriedly, between scenes of Broadway's hit revival of The Skin of Our Teeth (TIME, Aug. 29), Actress Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright...
...Thing. The U.S. Marine Corps ordered production of Ontos [Greek for The Thing], a fast (40 m.p.h.), tracked antitank vehicle. Bristling with six recoilless 106-mm. rifles, the 8.5-ton Ontos relies on hit-and-run tactics rather than heavy armor for survival, uses .50-cal. machine guns to sight in on a target with tracer bullets, then fires off its heavy battery and runs for cover to reload...
...while sober, to behave as if drunk. The damn-the-torpedoes dean of the school is Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who signs himself "O.K." and is proving very much O.K. in Salzburg this season. Kokoschka's sets for a festival performance of Mozart's Magic Flute were the hit of the show (TIME, Aug. 8), his summer art school in a fortress overlooking the city was going strong, and an exhibition of his last three years' work drew raves from the critics...
SYNTHETIC RUBBER is rolling at top speed now that private business has taken over the Government's 24 synthetic plants (TIME, May 9). With natural rubber prices soaring, demand for synthetics is so high that man-made rubber will total 60% of the market this year, has already hit 500,000 tons in 1955's first half, a 36% jump over 1954. Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich all have big expansion programs in the works...
...last week, Swaps broke in front. Jockey Willie Shoemaker allowed him his own, front-running race until they got to the 16th pole. Then Willie stood casually in his stirrups and looked behind. Clifford Mooers's Traffic Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard for the turf distance...