Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power transmission costs. Many a city is chary about admitting this forerunner of the atomic future. As they searched for explanations, AEC agents ran up against another sorrowful problem of the atomic age: What to do with the bodies of Seabee Electrician Richard Legg, 26, Army Specialist John Byrnes III, 22, and Army Specialist Richard McKinley, 27? Since they will long be radioactive, they will have to be buried in lead coffins in some secluded area or consigned...
...massive analysis of Broadway past performances, divided plays into four categories depending upon the records of their participants and principals since 1956. In his top class-Group IV-Vail feels that 70% of all entries will make a profit, while he foresees a payoff for only 65% in Group III. 15% in Group II and only 6% in Group I ventures. On his form sheet for 1961: Group IV. The only show still to open this season in TI's gilt-edged category, Carnival, a musical based on the film Lili, boasts a blue-chip billing of Producer David...
...Group III. Upcoming in this category (which included A Taste of Honey, Becket and Irma La Douce, among other fall openers) is Producer-Director-Writer Dore Schary's The Devil's Advocate, based on the Morris West bestseller about a contemporary case of sainthood in Italy. In the past, while wearing each of the three hats, Schary has scored 50% of the time, while his leading actor, Sam (Guys and Dolls) Levene, good as he is, has had a loser a year since...
While to date, Vall's dire prognoses have been almost invariably correct for the two lower echelons, his thoroughbreds -notably Saratoga and Pink Jungle-have all too often turned turkey. Group III, with about 60% profit makers, has actually outperformed Group IV by about 10%-which is why Vail regards a Broadway opening as "the greatest suspense story ever told," and why his handicapping is less than final...
...MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE: VOL. III, SALVATION 1944-1946. The last volume of De Gaulle's Memoirs grimly but eloquently describes what happened when the triumphant hero found himself on home soil surrounded by politicians who, according to him, preferred intrigue and political anarchy to his own iron patriotism...