Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
...Washington Senator McClellan had the last word, just as his labor-management investigating committee hoped ultimately to have the last word when hearings begin next month. And what stern John McClellan had to say added up to a different kind of blaze across the sky. Open defiance of legal federal inquiry ''really challenges the sovereignty of government.'' said he. "Though we haven't even scratched the surfaces yet, the incidents of violence and attempted intimidation underscore the need for laws to drive the crooks out of the labor movement...
...good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime...
...Irish historian Lecky. When he returned, he was still in his early twenties, but he had received a liberal education from the study of these volumes. And when he was married, he read Carlyle's French Revolution to his bride at night until dawn broke in the sky...
...Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur, 20, son of Helen Hayes and the late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light in the Forest and the upcoming Banner in the Sky. ¶ Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater on Manhattan's First Avenue, remodeled it, presented Tennessee Williams' long-running Garden District. ¶ Anthony Perkins, 26, was a tot of five when...