Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerging from an after-midnight coffee session last week at Lindy's, his favorite spot, dapper little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Labor Columnist Victor Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...
...enthusiasm of Europeans for American jazz was almost too much for Bandleader Lionel Hampton. Trouble struck during his midnight concert last week in Amsterdam's revered Concertgebouw. TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker cabled this communiqu...
...Algiers itself when terrorists set fire to a garage in the heart of the city. Minister Resident Robert Lacoste arrived just in time to face down an angry committee of mayors who were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring...
Last week, in a flat technical report, the Air Force Cambridge Research Center gave ample evidence that the midnight phenomenon marked a fascinating new breakthrough in high altitude science...
...DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs to his small study to catch up on his homework for the A.A.G.P. and A.M.A., gets to bed at midnight. Every Thursday afternoon he drives 18 miles to the University of Michigan Medical Center for postgraduate training, last year got credit for 100 hours' work, mostly in internal medicine...