Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copies-for free distribution to troops, sells the balance (at 1? a copy, 25? a month) to villagers in Quemoy, oyster fishermen in North Mountain, sweet potato and millet farmers in South Mountain. About $250 in monthly advertising revenue comes from Formosa merchants eager to fill front-line mail orders...
...Passion (by Elmer Rice) has not gone to Hamlet merely for its title; it has gone there, quite openly, for its basic characters and plot. Since many Hamlets of one kind or another preceded Shakespeare's, it is not out of line that others should follow it; after all, it is for being the most fascinating of English plays that Hamlet remains the most familiar...
...Army (8-0-1)-threw away its conservative offense of past years, opened up with a "lonesome end," unbalanced line and a multifarious passing attack, capped its best year since 1949 by surviving newfangled Navy trickery for a workmanlike 22-6 victory in the annual interservice grudge match...
...Wisconsin (7-1-1)-with a rugged defensive line and a sophomore quarterback named Dale Hackbart who can do everything, it managed a strong second-place finish...
...first time in history, two of the nation's four biggest airlines were downed by strikes-and a third was losing altitude fast. At Eastern Air Lines, 5,383 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out, along with 550 Eastern flight engineers. The Eastern strike and the walkout of machinists at Trans World Airlines (TIME, Dec. 1) shut down close to one-third of the nation's air transport system; 388 planes were grounded, and the 32,000 passengers they normally carry each day had to scramble to find other transportation. To make matters worse...