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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idlewild stands alone in the U.S. in objecting to jets. Airports in Chicago, Los Angeles. Miami. Boston. Denver, Wichita, Oklahoma City and also Mexico City, Caracas and Vancouver, B.C. welcome and actively solicit jetliner test flights, figuring that an airport that cannot or will not take jets might as well go back to cow pasture...
...Despite the talk about airplane noises, few property owners ever bother to take legal action, and fewer still win. The U.S. Air Force, for example, has been named in 34 suits about aircraft noise. Although its planes operate without suppressors, only three suits were lost; only one of those involved pure jets...
...Roof is the fifth of Tennessee Williams' works to be put on the screen, following The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tattoo, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll. In his four earlier films, Williams seemed to need a warmup of two backward steps before he could take one step forward, but at least the movement was visible and real. This time, Adapter-Director Richard Brooks has been able to put very little motion in his motion picture. His Cat is a formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life...
...Pasternak, 68, distinguished Russian translator of Shakespeare, Goethe, Shelley, finished the novel in 1955, after almost a decade's work, and during a period of "thaw"' and official absentmindedness sent it to an Italian Communist publisher (TIME, Dec. 9). Before long the Reds did an ideological double take and demanded the manuscript's return, but the publisher refused. This English translation reveals the novel (which begins in 1903 and ends in 1929, with an epilogue carrying the action beyond World War II) as a biography of Pasternak's own generation, described by Poet Alexander Blok...
...girl, and the corner drugstore is not always successful either. Author Jaffe's working girls are all the sad young women who splash to Manhattan like tender young salmon, desperately eager to find a man and spawn, in wedlock but not necessarily in Westchester. In the meantime they take office jobs and go cummings' Cambridge ladies one worse by living two to a furnished soul...