Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, the Red hunt bore down implacably on party heretics, class enemies and "agents of Western imperialism." Most spectacular was the Vogeler trial in Hungary (see above). The pattern elsewhere...
...after 17 spectacular years in the Texas oilfields, he looks like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman...
...This role of the less spectacular and apparently unapplied groups within a faculty of arts and sciences deserves emphasis because in the grim years ahead, when the cold war will be with us, I fear, with an increasing intensity, it is this part of a university which will need special protection, and especially merits our concern...
Died. Charles E. Brickley, 58, Harvard ('14), an All America football great and most spectacular dropkicker of them all; of a heart attack: in his Manhattan hotel room. In his greatest day, Halfback Brickley kicked all of Harvard's points in the spectacular 15-5 victory over Yale in 1913, in three years, made a total of 30 touchdowns and 34 field goals for the Crimson. He found life a tougher game to play, tried pro-football, brokerage, in later years wound up as an advertising salesman...