Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night in Lisbon, Remarque (7) 10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer...
...Ryan's Express, Westheimer...
...STRATFORD, CONN. This is the tenth season for Stratford-upon-Housatonic, which once tried to enrich its box office with stars like Jack Palance and Robert Ryan, apparently hoping that audiences would confuse qualitative accomplishment with mere surprise that the stars could say the lines at all. Then in 1962 the Ford Foundation gave $503,000 to Stratford to help finance a wintertime school in speech, dance, fencing and so on, designed to develop a permanent company with all the depth, facility, and technical skill of an English group...
...LIFT FAN: Perhaps the most imaginative design of all is the XV-5A lift fan built by Ryan Aeronautical Co. and General Electric. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary jet fighter with two engines, but set into the stubby wings are what seem to be large manhole covers. When opened, each cover exposes a fan 5 ft. in diameter. When valves close off the tailpipe of the jet engines, racing exhaust gases hit the tips of the fan blades and spin them at high speed. Twin blasts of air are forced downward, and their powerful thrust lifts...
...Group, McCarthy (3) 6. Candy, Southern and HofFenberg (7) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer...