Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waiting for Godot" will go on tomorrow as originally scheduled despite the recent arrest of two cast members imported from the Actors' Repertory Theatre, Jan A. Hartmann '59, director, said yesterday. The play will run through Sunday and again from Dec. 5-8 in the Ballroom of the Hotel Commander...
...average atmospheric pressure (446 mm. of mercury) slightly more than half that at sea level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...
...first Ivy contest for the varsity will be on Jan. 5, at Providence against Brown. Before Christmas vacation, the squad will play six non-League games...
...deep for safety. Jets will reach heights formerly monopolized by military planes, will need precise traffic controls to keep them on their separate ways. Last summer Congress belatedly created a new jet-age federal agency, the Federal Aviation Agency, which will supplant the old Civil Aeronautics Administration on Jan. 1, take over safety-regulations functions from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Headed by Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, retired Air Force lieutenant general, the new agency will control both military and commercial jet movements, try to set up round-the-clock, all-weather control of U.S. aircraft. Last week Quesada announced a significant...
...Roots of Heaven (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), adapted from Remain Gary's international bestseller (TIME, Jan. 20), appears to be one of those movies that are more exciting to make than to see. To make this one, Holly woodsman Darryl Zanuck and 130 dauntless actors and technicians were flown into darkest Africa to the searing barrens beyond the Hill of the Demons in the French Cameroons. The demons did not appear personally, but the place was hell, all right. By day the temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below...