Word: maelstroms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. A radio heroine beloved by millions for her sweetness and generosity makes life a maelstrom for her intimates with her tyrannical temper and oppressive ways. Comedienne Beryl Reid makes British Playwright Frank Marcus' lesbian protagonist a most believable bully...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS 9-11 p..m.). Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds co-star in The Rat Race (1960), Garson Kanin's story of life and love midst Manhattan's maelstrom...
With Kennedy's death, Johnson was thrust into a foreign policy maelstrom. In two years, he had to cope with riots in Panama, civil war in Cyprus, massacre in the Congo, killing in Kashmir, sag in the Alliance for Progress, Gaullism in NATO, chaos in the Dominican Republic, and above all, Viet Nam. Johnson said that he felt himself "in the position of a jack rabbit in a hailstorm, hunkered up and taking it." He also had to listen to a lot of contradic tory advice from his lieutenants. The President once petulantly complained that "the Air Force comes...
...norm by the end of next year. As a spectacle, the oxygen furnaces of such firms as Bethlehem, National, Republic and Kaiser out-inferno Dante. When a pipelike lance stabs the molten iron with a Mach 2 jet of high-pressure oxygen, the cauldrons burst into a maelstrom of 3,000° metal, boiling noxious smoke and spewing fireworks. The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead of six to ten hours in an open-hearth furnace but produces metal with fewer strength-sapping impurities as well...
...this maelstrom of effort, the line that is flying away with most of the business is Pacific Southwest, which is tiny compared with its major competitors but still ranks as the largest intrastate airline in the U.S. In its fleet of six Electras, P.S.A. in 1964 carried more than 1,500,000 passengers, 50.4% of all those flying the route v. Western's 27.8%, United's 18.1% and TWA's 3.7%. Under its aggressive president, ex-R.A.F. Pilot J. Floyd Andrews, 48, P.S.A. early took a firm lead on the route by pioneering low-cost commuter...