Word: versions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point, Ustinov is looking on as his new play, Halfway Up the Tree, opens this season in five productions in four countries in three languages-and he won't have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France to listen in on his own translation, and maybe catch the productions in Berlin and Diisseldorf for a change of pace. "It's bad," said Ustinov. "I'll be living in airplanes...
...smaller, short-haul planes are even now jamming air corridors and ground terminals. Reflecting the desire of many airlines for more seats but fewer planes is the fact that Boeing's ubiquitous 131-passenger 727, in service for only three years, is being expanded to a 180-seat version. "Without the air bus," says Lockheed Project Chief Robert A. Bailey, "you'd have an all-aluminum overcast by 1975 on major U.S. routes...
Last week part of that version unexpectedly appeared. Pirated excerpts were printed in the newspaper France-Soir -two months ahead of the book's scheduled publication date. Malraux's publisher, Gallimard, duly registered its consternation at the leak, but the 3,500 words that were made public were only a teasing glimpse of what was to come...
...Whole Story. Such is the interest in the rest of Malraux's Anti-Memoirs that U.S. publishers have reportedly offered as much as $250,000 for the right to put out an English version. Even at that high price, they will only be buying part of the story. Anti-Memoirs is a four-volume work, and Malraux, now 65, has already arranged to have the other three volumes published posthumously...
...early version of the Wankel, used in the NSU Spider sports car since 1964, proved sufficiently promising for NSU to go ahead with the venture and commit virtually all its resources to it. Meanwhile, 17 firms, including Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Outboard Marine Corp. in the U.S., Rolls-Royce in England and Alfa Romeo in Italy have paid NSU for licenses for the new engine. Citroen of France set up a joint corporation with the small German carmaker to produce a Wankel-powered auto by the beginning...