Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools after rigorous selection and anguished boning up on calculus. Rickover personally screens every officer who enters, grills every enlisted man who flunks to find out why. He checks the courses and picks the teachers, many of them former college professors now happily authorized to toss erasers at window gazers...
Died. Harry Falconer McLean, 78, boisterous, eccentric Canadian construction king, the fabled "Mr. X" who once dumped $5,000 in silver and small bills out of his hotel window, handed out $100 bills to soldiers and chambermaids, $1,000 and $2,000 checks to bellhops and cabbies because "I like to see people happy," and was swamped with 27,000 marriage proposals (he ignored them all, was married twice, to other women); of a stroke; in Merrickville, Ont. A 6-ft., 200-lb. bear of a man whose tastes ran to torpedo-sized cigars, buffalo-skin coats and liquor...
...camera's eye pans over the ravages of a Lost Weekend in Eliot House, as seven bleary-eyed dissipates scratch their navels, belch, and squint unbelievingly as an elegant figure, clutching a Neville Chamberlain umbrella, hoists himself through an upper-story window into their midst. And so begins "Three Giant Steps," a 21-minute silent comic film which opens tomorrow night in the Eliot House dining hall...
...illuminating example of the trials of movie-making is the bit in which Casey and Babe are seen peering through an open window as Miss Rosten prepares her breakfast. Actually half of the shooting took place from inside the kitchen of Gilman House at Radcliffe. The street-view shots of the Peeping Toms, however, were taken outside the Owl Club, because the first-floor level there made peeping somewhat easier than the greater height from the ground of the Gilman kitchen. When Miss Rosten seems to be pulling the shade on her uninvited guests, the shading is actually being performed...
...unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...