Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airline gate at Washington's National Airport, two tall and solid-looking men stood chatting volubly in German. At departure time the two shook hands and murmured "auf wiedersehen." Then Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab entered the plane. His companion, State Department Protocol Officer John Farr Simmons, waited at the gate until the plane was aloft; then he turned and hurried back to his desk at the State Department...
...scientists are primarily interested in oil refining. They hope that gamma rays will do the job of high pressure, high temperature and conventional catalysts-all of which are expensive. But "radiation catalysis" has possibilities far beyond oil refining. It can cause "polymerization"; i.e., join molecules of a liquid into solid, plasticlike substances. By making a reaction proceed at low temperature, it can produce valuable compounds that would be destroyed by the heat of an ordinary chemical reaction...
...Naples, a six-man commission of solid citizens and cops grilled onetime U.S. Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 57, deported from the U.S. in 1946. After keeping him squirming on the hot seat for half an hour, the six unanimously decided that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs...
Angel-voiced Soprano Milanov, as Chénier's aristocratic amour, and archangel-voiced Baritone Warren, as a servant turned revolutionary, helped make the Met's Chenier a solid success, but the hit of the evening was Tenor Mario Del Monaco, in the powerful title role. When his time came, he stood back, heaved an enormous breath, spread his arms and let fly with a stunning high B flat that he held until it began to sound as if a phonograph needle was stuck in the groove...
Televiewers are hardened both to superlatives and long commercials. But last week, in hailing the 1955 models of automobiles, the networks pulled out even more stops than usual. On CBS's Shower of Stars, Sponsor Chrysler gave its viewers almost a solid hour of commercial as it unveiled an endless succession of Plymouths, Dodges, DeSotos, Chryslers. This, an announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between...