Word: midday
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...Racing a midday Wednesday deadline, TIME'S election story went out on teletypesetters to printing plants in Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, where printing and production crews took over, 36 hours later than usual. Meanwhile, exact copies of each page were put on film and acetate page proofs and hustled aboard waiting planes for shipment to TIME'S overseas printing plants...
...innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped a 22-hour curfew on the entire village, allowing inhabitants to move about only during the usual midday shopping hours, and cut the rice ration of all but children from 6⅔ to 4 Ibs. per week...
...baboons have been thwarting progress ever since the government cleared away 430 acres of savanna last year and laid out Livingstone Airport, designed for jet transports. To begin with, the big grey baboons streamed out of the forests on to the runway, swinging big sticks to squash up a midday lunch of scorpions. "They got in the path of oncoming planes and left sticks and rubbish on the runways," complained Airport Manager E.G.F. Salmon. "We drove out in jeeps to drive them off and fired shots over their heads. Somehow we couldn't shoot to kill; they were...
From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
...band of University maintenance men who annually assemble the speakers platform took time out yesterday to make their traditional predictions of the famous figures who will receive honorary degrees at Harvard's 800th commencement. But the uncomfortable midday heat apparently made the sawdust sooth-sayers more waggish than usual as 46 percent of those polled selected gambler Frank Costello as their first commencement choice...