Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voyage with Sabotage. At Le Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained...
...spot check at Bradley University (Peoria, Ill.) showed that more than half of its star athletes major in physical education, getting credits for such subjects as "handball, elementary swimming, square and social dancing, touch football and first...
Actress Ritter's uncommon talent is for the common touch. She wields it this time as the down-to-earth mother of a social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with...
Hayden burgeons, but he still has a lot more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with...
...have to meet the minimum safety specifications of the C.A.A., but the scheduled airlines have far stricter requirements for their equipment and personnel. A ground mechanic, after acquiring his license, must spend two years learning about the kind of planes operated by his company before he is allowed to touch any plane intended for flight. On the other hand, most of the non-scheduled lines require only that their mechanics possess licenses. The same is true of pilots. Those on the scheduled airlines must have about ten thousand hours in the air before they can pilot a passenger flight. This...