Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company. The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan recklessly disregarded instructions from the Lisbon Airport. The Warsaw limitation does not apply when the crash is caused by "willful misconduct." If the plaintiffs can prove willful misconduct, they may be able to collect a lot more than...
Jeopardy (MGM) is a frenzied little thriller that allows a lustful killer (Ralph Meeker) to menace a quiet family vacationing in Lower California. When the husband (Barry Sullivan) is accidentally pinned down on a beach by rotting jetty timbers, his desperate wife (Barbara Stanwyck) sets out to find help before the tide comes in. She promptly runs into the desperado, who not only commandeers her car but begins leering at her. Does the wife outwit the bad man? Is the husband saved before the tide comes in? Do the police catch the killer? For this elaborately rigged situation, Jeopardy uses...
...council voted 4 to 3, to refer the motion to committee. Councillor Edward J. Sullivan, who supported the measure, said, "It may stay there forever...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). The Metropolitan Opera's new English version of La Bohème, with Conner, Sullivan, Guarrera...
...Manhattan, FBIman Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic steeplechase champion and 1952 Sullivan Award winner, added the national A.A.U. three-mile title to his trophies. Running against Germany's Herbert Schade, close-up finisher behind Czech Emil Zatopek in the Olympic 5,000-meter run, Ashenfelter won by 95 yds. in 13:47.5, just 1.8 seconds behind Greg Rice's 1942 record. Other A.A.U. champions: Mal Whitfield at 600 yds. in 1:10.4; Fred Dwyer at one mile, 4:12.4; Olympic Champion Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, his seventh straight 60-yd. hurdles title...