Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at the college (which knows how to throw a good cocktail party in a dry county). Says Cullman's Mayor Bill Arnold: "St. Bernard is the greatest institution we've got. For the first time we're beginning to feel a cultural upswing. Certainly St. Bernard...
...first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough balloon popped out of the side of the package and was inflated with compressed air. An automatic knife cut its air hose, allowing the balloon to drag behind and making the chute take most of the shock of landing...
...industry, which is having its full share of recession troubles, last week added still another, left over from a time of shortage. In Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than...
Variety's reviewer gushed: "If this program doesn't make former Harvard men shell out with moola for a much needed cause, nothing will." Well, the "friends" of the College have more than risen to the occasion. As of May 14, the date of the last progress report from General Chairman Alexander M. White '25, the Program had received over $39.2 million...
...thick traffic of the working-class suburb of Catia, the caravan slowed to a crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...