Word: packed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressurized oxygen, helium and nitrogen, was awesomely hushed. "It's like no earthly quiet," he reported. "On earth there are always traffic sounds and dogs barking or the wind just whistling. But in space there's nothing but quiet." He leaned his head forward against his chest-pack parachute and promptly dropped off to sleep. (Back home in Alamogordo, N. Mex., Simons' wife and four children were camping out in the backyard "so we could be under the stars with daddy...
...based on Roger MacDougall's long-run London stage hit, the film gets on splendidly as long as it rambles puckishly in the classrooms and dormitories, spying on the rebellious antics of Ferndale School's mischievous boys. But when it suddenly converts its juvenile comics into a pack of stern little pacifists campaigning for world peace, it grows about as hilarious as a U.N. committee session on genocide...
...week started work on his first glass-fiber boat in his new company. In Monroe County, Ohio, ministers sparked a countywide poll of the labor force, which helped attract a new Olin Mathieson aluminum plant. In Espanola. N. Mex., fruitgrowers were helped to build a plant to grade and pack their apples and peaches. In Choctaw County, Okla.. which was losing population in droves, a new cannery, a glove factory and a feed mill were established...
...Actors are not very profound or articulate thinkers as a rule, but they are quick on the uptake and highly instinctive. It's not like dealing with a pack of engineers, for example. Don't keep actors just sitting on their behinds and reading the play a la Stanislavsky. Dame Edith Evans says she has to move on her feet in order to think and react imaginatively. You might be able to take your cast off to a farm for six months to read Uncle Vanya or The Cherry Orchard, but you can't do that with Tunnel of Love...
...Pack of Janitors. 1957's S.F. rests on a much frailer human base. Most of its stories explore the fantastic world of outer space with characters of a type unknown today-inhuman humans subject to telepathy, telekinesis, multiple personality, and an infinite capacity for shifting to and fro in spacetime. As characters, they are deader than the planets they visit; as explorers, they are about as intrepid as a pack of apartment-house janitors. Samples...