Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relax. Too many characters in it rant and shout; too often the camera sweeps in dizzying circles. One is left physically exhausted at the end. But it is, perhaps, worth it to see Judy Garland gone to seed (way over the rainbow) and hear Marlene Dietrich sing a snatch of Lili Marlene. The producers of the film undoubtedly think they have made the epic of the decade and solved all possible moral questions of Nazi Germany...
...With a government decision authorizing his Cunard Eagle line to make daily flights to the U.S. East Coast beginning next May, London's handsome Harold Bamberg, 37, won the first round in his battle to snatch some of the lucrative transatlantic trade away from Britain's state-owned BOAC and BEA. Bamberg started his line in 1948 with a surplus Halifax bomber that he bought for $420. Specializing in low fares and package plans (he is also chairman of a big London tourist agency), he parlayed his Halifax into a 20-plane fleet flying fringe European and Caribbean...
...former Harvard captain now competing for the English, Pat Liles of Cambridge, could snatch the broad jump away from Crimson freshman Chris Ohiri. Liles, incidentally, is in his third H-Y-O-C meet; high jumper Al Leisenring, once of Yale and now of Cambridge, is another expatriate...
Until the last two minutes before blastoff, the cherry picker had been close to the pad, prepared to snatch Shepard from Freedom 7 in case of a disaster on the ground. Besides the cherry picker, a fire-proofed Army personnel carrier stood by with a fire-suited crew. Some four miles from Pad 5, the headquarters of the Cape's Abort Rescue Team was a humming hive of activity. Six helicopters were tuning up, ready to carry skilled technicians, doctors and frogmen to rescue the astronaut if the capsule splashed near by. If the Freedom 7 should start...
Capitol Hill reporters eagerly stand in line to snatch a few minutes with Senator Barry Goldwater, the most sought-after Republican in Washington, and Goldwater has a tough time fitting in all of the would-be interviewers. Among the disappointed was Playwright Gore (The Best Man) Vidal. assigned by a magazine to examine Conservative Goldwater with a liberal eye. Vidal protested to a Goldwater aide, who, obviously fearing the sharp edge of Vidal's prose, hustled up to Goldwater and warned: "Look, Barry, this is a guy we can't fool around with." Vidal promptly got his appointments...