Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ill lay: sphinx-faced Columnist and TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 59-recovering at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn., from an operation that parted him from an inflamed gall bladder; Bestselling Novelist (Ship of Fools) Katherine Anne Porter, 72, who tripped down a dark flight of stairs in her Washington, D.C., home while calling for a kitten, cracking six ribs; and broad-toothed Comedian Joe E. Brown, 70, in Pittsburgh, Pa., melted by 90° heat while playing the Allegheny County Fair...
...into either his political past or his floundering attempts to develop a program for moving this state ahead. I think he has an unholy fear of the press. And this is something he will have to explain during the campaign." Retorted Nixon: "I call upon Brown to retract his ill-tempered outburst. If he does not do so, there can be only one conclusion. He is afraid to have his record exposed in a face-to-face confrontation with...
...better high schools are getting still better. Logic, Greek, Portuguese and a fifth year of French will be taught this year in Lake Forest. Ill. With Harvard's help, Capuchino High School in San Bruno, Calif., will develop a new physics course incorporating history, philosophy and the cultural impact of science. In Beverly Hills, which is starting a twelve-year foreign language setup, the high school even boasts two summer campuses in Spain and Austria...
Broadway producers are tiring of the traditional tryout towns; they are, after all, so close to New York. When a heavy wind blows south from Boston or New Haven, it too often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
First into the world with commercial jets (the Comets) and turboprops (the Viscounts), Britain's planemakers have been trailing their wings through a combination of ill luck, much-publicized crashes and the lack of resources to compete with U.S. giants. As a survival measure, the British government pressured the British aviation industry into consolidating into two major groups in 1960. The groups: 1) British Aircraft Corp., composed of Vickers, English Electric and Bristol, and 2) Hawker Siddeley, which took de Havilland under its wing...