Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Provincetown, Mass., Provincetown Playhouse on the Wharf: Three sea plays by Eugene O'Neill: The Rope, lie, The Long Voyage Home...
Warm Reception. Four days after his C. of C. appearance, the President planed down to New Orleans to make another speech, this time to boost his trade-expansion bill. The occasion was the dedication of a huge new $12.5 million wharf on the Mississippi River, a fitting symbol of international trade. In his talk, the President restated his essential argument for his bill: presidential authority to slash tariffs is required to keep the European Common Market open to U.S. exports. "In May of 1962," he said, "we stand at a great divide: we must trade or fade. We must either...
...have reason to be grateful for the gift: the drawings make up a rare record of one artist's precocious development. With each month, Levine's draftsmanship grew in strength until, by the end of the series, he was a polished artist. His drawings of workers and wharf scenes catch the somber drama that would preoccupy him throughout the Depression. His age when he did them...
There was nothing secret last week about the arrival of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Core. Belching clouds of black smoke from its single stack, Core moved 45 miles up a tributary of the Mekong River to President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital city of Saigon, docked at a wharf directly in front of the Hotel Majestic and the Café Terrasse...
...into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that-in part because the hero, in his pool-fool cuepidity, has neglected her -the girl lets her life out of her wrists. The hero's heart at last is touched. Redeemed...