Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the tests that followed are just vaguely familiar names now, but they loom large in the memories of the weary scientists, including Ogle, who sweated them out. There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive...
Annie Oakley Explained. Owner Hamid, now 65. bought the Steel Pier in 1945 for $2,500,000, has extended its length to half a mile and its box office to some $2,000,000 a year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped...
Hamid, long since a millionaire, now leaves the day-by-day management of the Steel Pier to his smoothly agreeable, Princeton-educated son, George Jr., 42, and some entertainers are probably thankful that he does. The Old Tumbler has no admiration for the easy somersaults of the Frankie Avalons, the Fabians, the ducktail warblers. "It used to take some body like Sophie Tucker ten years to get her name in lights," he remembers. "Now you're on the marquee if you cut a single record. I just can't take paying these brats $10,000. Goddamit, I used...
...dinner he drank toasts to Stalin, then Churchill, then Roosevelt, each time quaffing a full tumbler of vodka. One correspondent remembers his eyes: "bright, suspicious, ever moving, advertising the cunning thought, but also humorous and undaunted...
...Tumbler (by Benn W. Levy) was the sixth Broadway production to open in February and close within a week. A harrowingly pretentious verse drama, The Tumbler was the deadliest of the six, while also providing the most newsworthy casualties: Director Laurence Olivier, Actors Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris and Martha Scott, and a playwright who once wrote Springtime for Henry...