Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendations themselves. Only three of the ten urge specific changes--the others are vague admonitions. Recommendations two and three propose returning maid service to Dunster House and centering the College porter system in the Yard. As the report pointed out, the ten or fifteen minutes required for the trek between classrooms and Houses complicates scheduling problems no end. Porters must be either late for class. As a short-range expedient, therefore, the recommendations are undoubtedly sound...
White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston." White also believes that "it's an economic crime for us to move out." But American Woolen may be forced to join the trek of New England mills south because "New England is at a great competitive disadvantage." Labor is cheaper in the South-up to 40? an hour less-but even more important "is the amount of work employees give for that wage." Man-hour productivity is so much greater in the South...
Westward the Women (MGM) is the showmanlike saga of an 1851 trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...
...been terrified by his jeep ride and refused flatly to get into another one. So a U.N. party marched him back to the family hut on foot, a half-hour trek along paddy dikes. Cried the overjoyed father: "Thank you a million times...
Though Manhattan's one-night audience cheered the First Drama Quartette with a proprietary sense of discovery, the .troupe had already played Manhattan, Kans.-and 105 other whistle stops, cities and metropolises in 35 states, England and Scotland. The trek to what Actor-Director Charles Laughton calls "the huge neglected audience" began last February. Since then, in three tours consisting mostly of one-night stands, Don Juan in Hell has proved a steady sellout everywhere, in arenas, theaters and stadiums, outgrossing South Pacific in Denver, drawing an audience of 3,800 in Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,500), emptying Carnegie...