Word: losses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, Conrad filled the airwaves with ho-ho-hos, dum-de-dum-dums, cackles and other sounds of pure enjoyment. "We could work out here for eight or nine hours," said Bean. "The work is no strain at all," agreed Conrad. The astronauts tried to compensate geologists for the loss of TV views by conscientiously describing everything they saw: glazed rocks at the centers of craters, soil built up at the base of rocks, bedrock under the black dust, and a radial spray pattern around the 40-ft.-wide Sharp Crater...
Raquel desperately wanted parts that called for something more than guttural one-liners, but the pattern seemed set. Then, in March 1968, Fox announced that it had purchased the rights to Myra. Trouble was, Fox was at a loss to cast the transsexual title role. Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury and Anne Bancroft were considered. Fox even tested eight real transvestites, but decided that an uncloseted queen just wouldn't do. Then Producer Robert Fryer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) had an inspiration. "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful...
Scrapping Flights. Halaby may need all his charm and brilliance to right Pan Am, which has just posted a record nine-month loss of $4,500,000, compared with earnings of $39,500,000 for the same period last year. On the lucrative North Atlantic run, globe-girdling Pan Am has been nosed out of first place by rival TWA. Pacific routes that once were Pan Am's alone are now aswarm with competitors. To cut its losses, Pan Am has scrapped 23 unprofitable flights in the Pacific and announced layoffs of 450 pilots and flight engineers. Said Halaby...
...relatively cheap to use. Almost all of the Western world's enriched uranium is produced in gaseous-diffusion plants owned by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. For a time, at least, France would become dependent on U.S. fuel. The government announcement angered French atomic workers, who face the loss of 2,600 jobs because of cutbacks. Last week almost all of the 31,000 atomic workers went on strike in protest...
Hartwick has a 10-1-1 record, its only loss coming at the hands of N.Y.U. two weeks...