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...Arthur L. Kopit is scarcely out of Harvard, but he has already shaped his talents on a series of campus productions that included How Sweet the Wine and How Dark the Color, To Dwell in a Palace of Strangers, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit's first-professional production reached the stage: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling...
...become a first-rate playwright, but he is already one of the theater's better critics. Meanwhile, if New Yorkers were startled to see Broadway theater managers already heading toward the Hudson bearing armfuls of giant letters, it only meant that on the runway of life they seem to sense what's coming off next...
...loading gate, which is really the wide doorway into the lounge. The lounge (54 ft. long, 17½ ft. high and 16 ft. wide) has comfortable chairs, tinted windows, piped-in music and air conditioning. At take-off time, it is driven to the waiting plane parked on the runway. The lounge ramp is fitted to the door of the plane, and the passengers move right to their aircraft seats...
...from the propeller-driven days of Jimmy Doolittle, Jackie Cochran, reciprocating engines, wheel pants and struts. Civilians no longer could afford to compete, and according to present procedure, only one service was invited. But early one day last week, five Navy F4H-1 Phantom II jets roared down the runway at Los Angeles International Airport and raced eastward. Their goals: Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a new transcontinental speed record, and the Bendix Trophy-one of the most coveted awards in U.S. aviation...
...rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand...