Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neat. The next night, the latest episode of the Steve Canyon series (NBC) demonstrated that even a fictionalized story based on Milton Caniff's comic strip can hardly outrace reality. It is, after all, possible for a carelessly fired deer rifle to damage the window of a parked B-47. The damage could very well spread under the stress of flight. And when a window blows out at 46,000 feet, pilot and copilot alike might just possibly be too stunned to nose down to safety. Granted those coincidences, the rest of Operation Intercept was a neat exercise...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...
Bonfires either within the College Fence or elsewhere still annoyed Faculty and Presidents. Jared Sparks issued the infamous Laws of 1848, which included the edict that, "Any student crying fire, sounding an alarm, leaving their rooms, shouting or clapping from a window, going to the fire, or being seen at it, going into the College Yard, or assembling on account of such bonfire, shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, and punished accordingly...
Over Düsseldorf last week, a dark, beetle-browed young man leaned from the window of a low-flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...
From outside comes a peril more dire, if not more wearing, than hunger or boredom or claustrophobia. Nazi boots clump on the cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation...