Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely down and plows through the sand-only to hit an abandoned pier and incinerate...
...business, the other a husband in shoe business, but Elizabeth Taylor, 32, and Debbie Reynolds, 32, do have something in common: an ex-husband. They also managed last week to land in the same boat, the Queen Elizabeth, bound from New York to Europe. Hordes of reporters descended on Pier 92 as the shipmates came aboard: Debbie with Husband Harry Karl; Liz with 127 pieces of luggage, four children, and oh, yes, someone in dark glasses whom a newsman called "Mr. Taylor." Another asked Liz if she planned to meet Debbie. "I would have dinner," she replied, "if invited." Would...
...Pier Talenti, the top Goldwater man in Italy, began organizing seven months ago, but he keeps colliding with Italian regulations, which require that any public gathering of more than five persons must be approved by a long list of officials ranging from the Interior Ministry down to the local fire department...
...said Atlantic City was a bore? Eddie Fisher was packing them in at the 500 Club, Sarah Vaughan was singing her heart out at Le Bistro, Lyndon Johnson's two-night stand was an S.R.O. draw at Convention Hall. The Steel Pier featured Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle and The Diving Horse. And over at the Globe Theater, the management proudly presented "Her Sexcellency" Sally Rand in Person. To the surprise of those who thought Strip per Sally had gone out with bathtub gin, she seemed to have changed hardly at all. For that matter, Atlantic City hadn...
While both love affairs develop innocuously, the gaps in the story line are filled by some delightful European circus acts and other diversions. A 4,000-ton ship keels over at the pier in Barcelona, and one exciting scene has Hayworth, Cardinale and Wayne all dangling from the rigging of a burning tent. The only serious mishap to befall Circus World is Cinerama, which magnifies a meager tale beyond all reasonable proportions. To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there...