Word: igth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite this, the Federal Government, with enthusiastic assistance from state and local governments, continues to ride the railroads as though they still possessed their igth century monopoly. In the urban East, where Government insistence on the continuance of money-losing passenger and commuter runs hurts the most, the 40 major roads actually rolled $110 million in the red in the first half of 1961. Overall, the 107 Class One U.S. railroads last year earned barely 2% on invested capital-less than during Depression years. The hapless New York, New Haven & Hartford is already in bankruptcy. And President Alfred Perlman...
...evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed this Civil War Centennial treat for Post readers, Editor James Wechsler was ecstatic. "Why," said Wechsler, "Uncle Tom emerges as a prototype of Martin Luther King...
...district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn for 20 years after leaving St. Louis' Concordia Seminary...
...himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read the libretto (by Temistocle Solera, a minor 19th century poet), he found himself writing "one day a verse, the next day another; one time a note, another a phrase, and little by little the opera." The subject was a natural for mid-igth century Italy: the captivity of the Jews under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, reminiscent to Italian audiences of their own fate under Austrian rule. The third act chorus of chained prisoners, "Va', pensiero" ("Go, thought, on wings of gold"), became an immediate hit all across Italy...
...speakers could have delivered quite a lecture: on view were loans from 70 small U.S. museums supported by colleges and universities and by communities of under 100,000. The museum's Director Richard McLanathan, 44, had chosen them all: he went to Searsport, Me. to get a fine igth century carved eagle, picked up the oldest painting in the show -a 1670 portrait of a two-year-old girl done with quasi-medieval flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from...