Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first cable from Rio de Janeiro to reach TIME'S foreign desk a fortnight ago reported the suicide story of President Getulio Vargas. It ended with a terse footnote: "Impossible reach office now blocked by police investigating killing of boy outside building. Plan file picemeal updating whenever possible sit down and write...
...Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of a legless R.A.F. ace who destroyed 22½ enemy planes, kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME...
...cliff to a wide and treacherous snow field. Suddenly Neal disappeared. "I was walking on some wet rock," he remembered later, "when I slipped and fell into a 75-ft. crevasse." Hastily the climbers lowered a rope. The end caught in a cranny beyond Neal's reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower him into the crevasse. He got a rope around Neal and the men above finally managed to haul Neal...
Pulling Tony out was another proposition. Near the top he caught on a bulge in the snow wall; he could reach no foothold. He was soaked and cold and tired. Once they got him almost high enough to touch his pack, but when dark came, the men on top gave up. Their strength was gone, and Tony still hung in the crevasse. All they could do was keep on talking. They heard Tony's last words-which no one remembers-some time near midnight...
...backhanded way. By killing off the market for B pictures, it forced Hollywood to concentrate on bigger and better productions. This has paid off at the box office, where gross is running about 5% ahead of a year ago, and in moviemakers' net profits, which may reach the highest level since 1948. As a result, movie stocks have gone up faster in the past year than the Dow-Jones industrial average (see chart...