Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady national axis. It had never happened before. As the world looked on, incredulous, a people armed principally with courage and determination (and a few filched guns) fought one of the most spectacular revolutions of modern times. Behind barricades, from rooftops and apartment windows, they harried their powerful oppressors in the classic revolutionary manner, and at week's end they had wrung from the most ruthless of modern despotisms a promise of the right to be free...
...race itself shaped up nearly as had been predicted, with Crimson ace Pete Reider duelling Princeton's spectacular sophomore Rod Zwirner for the lead. Yale contented itself with gaining the all-important third through eighth positions, ignoring the two front-runners...
...Saturday Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Gordon Jenkins' Manhattan Towers...
...wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness-like a fat lady winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th...
...plays later--scored by Simourian on his favorite play, the quarterback keep--seemed merely to ice the Crimson victory. But Brown's passing led to another Dartmouth score a minute later. The play, coming as it did at the end of the game, was reminiscent of Claude Benham's spectacular efforts for Columbia last week, with one difference. This week, the Crimson had a two-touchdown, rather than a one-point, lead...