Word: mixups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were present to give first aid. Otherwise, said Police Chief Kermit Westbay, the alert was highly successful...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...
Brandeis plays Dartmouth on Saturday in a regularly scheduled game: since the Indians are one of the strongest teams in the East, the Judges want to be fresh to face them. Brandeis also has another game coming up Tuesday. A mixup in its laundry schedule also contributed to the cancellation...
...names are spelled differently because of a mixup in school records...
...message given to Mossadeq was actually a copy of a message sent at the same time to Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. The mixup resulted from a cable snafu. Embarrassed Washington officials explained that there were "no essential differences" in the two messages...