Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoping to fly faster than the speed of the earth's rotation (1,080 m.p.h.), U.S. Marine Corps Major John H. Glenn Jr., 36, fell short of his hope, nevertheless last week jockeyed a pencil-nosed, silver-painted Navy F8U1 Crusader jet from Long Beach, Calif, to New York City for a new coast-to-coast record of 3 hr. 23 min. First to span the nation at supersonic speed, Pilot Glenn averaged 726 m.p.h. (or Mach 1.1 at his average flying altitude of 35,000 ft.), cut 21 minutes off the previous record established in March...
...city of Paris' notorious Sante prison is a grim, rectangular complex of grey buildings peopled with waiting men. Most are waiting for trial in the criminal courts; a few are awaiting freedom and the end of light sentences too short to warrant sending them to departmental prisons; a grim handful await death in the prison courtyard. At 7:30 one morning last week, all of them were awaiting the same thing-coffee. The "juice," as the prisoners call it, is passed out to them each morning just a half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve...
...capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted to give up the rights and privileges they had held in their hands for nearly 30 years." In short, said Zhukov, these men were "freaks" not worthy of being party members...
...days to take on a second major job, there will be no work-spreading effect to counter either automation or the flood of war babies expected to join the work force in a few years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks, research director for the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, attacked the idea that workers themselves want shorter hours.' Said Brooks: "The evidence is all on; the other side...
...first of the three offerings, The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine...