Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the hot shimmer of July in Jerusalem, a giant crane swung endlessly back and forth last week lifting new girders above an old shrine. The Dome of the Rock, at Jerusalem's eastern edge, was to have a new covering. Yet as riggers scrambled over the site, assembling the scaffolding and preparing huge aluminum beams for erection, a controversy raged over the project, with loud cries that one of the world's holiest spots was being defiled instead of restored...
...raise and a 40-hour week. Employers' groups flatly rejected them, later made an unacceptably low offer. The unions refused arbitration, called the walkout instead. Most provincial papers-about 1,100 weeklies and 87 dailies-soon were forced to suspend operations completely. Others put on the old school try, produced truncated editions using midnight oil and ingenuity...
FARRINGTON MANUFACTURING Co..a56-year-old maker of display cases, is one of the older companies that changed course to catch the electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner...
...Hill of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Wilkinsburg, Pa. has required that each boy and girl he presents for confirmation compose a prayer. The resulting collection of prayers, he writes in last week's Christian Century, is "a window to the soul of a twelve-year-old child...
...minutes, Anatomy is longer than the subject warrants, but the pace seldom slackens-thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger. The actors-particularly Stewart and Remick-handle themselves like the glossy professionals they are; but a number of important scenes are grandly swiped by that slick old (68) amateur, Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge almost as memorably as he played himself on TV during his historic fracas with the late Senator McCarthy...