Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eyes Forward. The future, not the past or even the present, is where British Columbia sets its sights. Last year Premier Bennett announced that his government proposed to license Sweden's Multimillionaire Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957) to build a $400 million-to-$600 million hydroelectric project on the Peace River, wire the electricity 600 miles to Vancouver. Wenner-Gren would also study the possibility of building pulp and paper mills, mines and smelters in the undeveloped northland. Since then, Wenner-Gren has spent an estimated $10 million surveying possible dam sites, prospecting for minerals...
...begins a death scene that for temporal duration (18 minutes) and sentimental excruciation has scarcely been equaled since Sonny Boy kicked the bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven...
...past five seasons lowly Northwestern had won only four Big Ten conference games. Taking over three years ago, young (35) Coach Ara Parseghian, onetime Miami (Ohio) halfback, set out to rebuild manpower and morale. "You're just the patsies from Northwestern," he taunted his players. It worked. This year aroused Wildcats have won their first three games (Washington State, Stanford, Minnesota). On the first three plays Michigan backs were thrown for 17 yds. in losses. Northwestern scored a fantastic four touchdowns in a seven-minute stretch before Parseghian emptied his bench to temper the slaughter. Final score: Northwestern...
...routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing a medley of songs from past triumphs, nudged two generations of fans to misty nostalgia. Every dance number showed that TV choreography need not be uniformly awful; every stage effect taught the cameras new tricks...
...latest set of apprehensive elders to make a study of U.S. college youth last week turned in a surprisingly optimistic report: the average student today is older, brighter and more serious than in past years, and the average college must hustle to keep up with the change. The report, They Come for the Best of Reasons, written by Columbia University Professor W. Max Wise for a panel of educators sponsored by the American Council on Education, sifts views and statistics on the present college generation. Highlights...