Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, in his tiny grey-walled office over Augusta's golf shop, was on top of the situation. Twice a day he conferred with Secretary of State Dulles over a maximum-security telephone line. At the Bon Air Hotel a few miles away, Army Signal Corpsmen decoded incoming intelligence estimates and sped them to the office. Courier planes dipped into nearby Bush Field with locked and guarded leather diplomatic pouches. Grudgingly aware that from all this was coming a set of certain decisions, newsmen gave up on their "Should he return?" stories, relaxed and enjoyed the combination...
...evening begins with The Long Voyage Home, a small story of a sailor's being shanghaied. Here, over-acting is at its highest, although Mikel Lambert, in a bit part as a barmaid, is excellent. John Baker plays a bartender with all the fervent cliches of a barber-shop tenor; Cyrus Hamlin, as the poor Swedish hero, is also exaggerated, but with an amiable naviete which suits his role surprisingly well. Jan Baltusnik, as the inevitable whore, adds occasional wistful effectiveness. The director, Edward McKirdy, shows pleasant and exceptional skill...
Traits & Ratters. Egan had other troubles. Once he paid a $50 fine and spent a night in jail for speeding, another time was fined $10 for disturbing the peace after he tried to remove a toy car from a repair shop (he said that it belonged to his son). In a fight with an Aurora justice of the peace. Egan got punched in the nose, lost his glasses, took after his opponent with a pair of scissors. He won such a reputation for his colorful use of abusive and obscene language that the city's Ministerial Association declared...
With their finds carefully wrapped up or tucked away in cardboard cigarette boxes, the Bedouins go to Bethlehem. About 100 yards from the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is supposed to have been born, they disappear into a cobbler's shop. There in his single tiny room, surrounded by wooden lasts and shoemaker's tools (including a Singer sewing machine), sits Khalil Iskander Shahin, a seam-faced...
...wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going on, scholars of the Scrollery suffer from a recurrent nightmare: that the Bedouins may stop bringing their finds to the cobbler shop of Khalil Iskander, and take them to a black market instead (no more than three or four small fragments have so far turned up for private sale by antique dealers around the world...