Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture script. Screenwriter Brian Moore fails to create a well-motivated plot, or even convincing cloak-and-dagger device. Like most of Hitchcock's "adventure" films, as he describes them, Torn Curtain's script is built around set-pieces: climactic scenes like the Mt. Rushmore sequence in North by Northwest or the music-hall finale in The 39 Steps. But with one magnificent exception, a grisly murder scene that borders on the hilarious, Torn Curtain's set-pieces don't work...
Intending to change the situation, the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Enforcement last week filed formal complaints against nine airlines: American, Braniff, Continental, National, Northwest, Pan American, Trans Caribbean, TWA and United. The bureau asked that the carriers be forced to close their "separate and unequal" facilities at major airports. A separate complaint against American was filed with the CAB by Herbert A. Goldberger, a Providence businessman, after he was denied admission last December to the line's special waiting rooms. "I felt like I'd been sent to the back of the bus," he said...
...machinist's union represents 34,4000 mechanics and related ground service employees at Eastern, National, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines; the corresponding workers at American and Pan Am are represented by the Transport Workers Union, the same union that crippled New York City with a subway strike in January...
...four-day walkout by 34,400 mechanics and other ground service workers of the International Association Machinists against Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World, and United Airlines affects more than 150,000 air passengers...
...strike area was two miles northwest of Haiphong (pop. 375,000), North Viet Nam's biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only...