Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers' average age is over 60, and some of the wrinkles show. Last fiscal year A. & P. slipped $6,000,000 in sales and $1,500,000 in earnings, while some competing chains, notably second-place Safeway, marked up good gains. The directors' revolt against age failed to impress outgoing President Ralph Burger, who has been with A. & P. for 51 years. After all, he learned his trade and landed his job from Brothers John and George Hartford, who made A. & P. the empire it is. John lived to be 79-and died on the job; George worked...
...script, written with considerable address by Playwright Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), foreshortens but does not falsify the story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing...
...nation's most powerful family, a leathery little (90 Ibs., 5 ft. 4 in.) millionaire who founded his country's national university and controlled its press; of a heart attack; aboard a plane bound from Boston to Miami. One somewhat less successful family exploit: an abortive 1959 revolt against the Panamanian government led by Arias' son Roberto, and assisted by his wife, Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was nabbed for arms-smuggling, spent a night in the poky...
...superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest beings alive in our time," a man of vast abilities who could write (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) as well as he could...
...individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard: A man is escaping. I must shoot. But should I shoot to kill? Sample problem for a railroad switchman: It is 1956. Hungary is in revolt. The Russians are rushing in troops by train. I can delay them by not shunting off local traffic. How long? Four hours? Six hours? Is it worth...