Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN will be built by General Motors this summer. Called Train Y, it will carry 400 passengers at better than 100 m.p.h. in low-slung, luxuriously appointed cars, each with a pantry and rest room at one end, a vestibule with steps for both high and low platforms at the other. Cost, excluding engine...
Spaciousness and privacy are emphasized from stem to stern. The traditional three-tiered bunks for crewmen remain -but with a difference. They have been ' compartmentalized like Pullman berths, with lightweight, perforated "privacy partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...
...Crimson senior's first place entitled him to the Darcey Memorial Trophy left undefended by second year law student and varsity lightweight coach Derrick Wilde. Wilde...
...Mass., heads a list of four newly-appointed crew managers for next year. Ostherr will succeed Joe Harrison '56 as varsity heavy manager a year from this spring. Ralph A. Powers, Jr. '57 of Lowell House and New London, Conn., will follow William H. Pear, II '56 as varsity lightweight manager for the season...
More than half of the performing groups are college workshops, high schools and conservatories. Knowing that he will probably get his hearing in such a setting, and not at the conservative, perennially strapped Metropolitan, the U.S. opera composer writes in a certain vein. His typical product is a lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music...