Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dialogue. The first is a displaced Agatha Christie murder mystery which would have found its logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum of dining room repartee, heavily reliant on puns about...
...houses presently on the site, which is owned by Radcliffe, have been donated to the Episcopal Theological School. Movers will cut them in half and transport them up Brattle St. to the seminary grounds...
...year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required by law? In the resultant fuss, the government toppled and a general election was called...
...consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore. If an emergency had to be policed in Nyasaland, reasoned London, better outside troops than Rhodesian vigilantes, whose presence would stir the fears and emotions of the blacks...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT expects its best commercial-transport year in 1959, will deliver 112 turbojet Electras valued at $260 million (previous record: $203 million), set up a new Electronics and Avionics Division...