Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-range farm program, therefore, should look beyond guaranteeing income toward inducing farmers to hop the industrial bandwagon. Foreclosed mortgages or governmental evictions are not the ways to do this. Locating new industries near farm areas is. Some farm states, notably Mississippi and South Carolina, have already tried to balance agriculture with industry by offering low taxes and ready-built plants to industries that will offer farm labor new employment...
Everywhere Bandleader Ray Anthony plays these days, dance halls develop a tremor under the thud of teen-age feet. The reason: a vigorous new conga-style dance number called The Bunny Hop, in which every verse ends with "Hop! Hop! Hop!" For Anthony, it all started last spring, when he heard that the Coke set of San Francisco's Balboa High School had worked up the dance. Anthony contrived a tuneless tune, recorded it (for Capitol), ordered a batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation...
...tarantulas crept out of cracks in the floor. She learned to know a lot of worlds: Washington, the Army schools, the rainy Northwest. In 1936, when Ike served as assistant to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, Mamie found herself living amid rococo splendor in Manila. The next hop took her to an apartment in San Francisco...
There are many unusual sequences: a love scene between Test Pilot Patrick and his wife (Ann Todd), wearing oxygen masks, played eight miles up in the air as they jet-hop from London to Cairo for a leisurely lunch; Test Pilot John Justin laughing with joy as he crashes the sound barrier in a shattering, exquisite moment, and then suddenly breaking into tears from the ordeal of the flight when he lands on the ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio...
...hope in the final match for the U.S. tennis championship was no hope at all: at 38, Gardnar Mulloy was drained by the years, and he was to face one of the finest players ever to hop a net. Yet the crowd cheered as Mulloy walked out to the famed center court at Forest Hills, lean, fit-looking and brisk, but stiff in his stride, and greying at the temples. It was his 18th year in the singles matches, and Mulloy, decorated veteran of World War 11 (lieutenant commander skipper of an LST) and four-time U.S. doubles champion (with...