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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheeled left landing gear. There were 113 people aboard. The big 707 was circling, preparing for a .crash landing. The whole city seemed to sit bolt upright. From Manhattan, from Queens and Brooklyn on the western bulge of Long Island, whole families poured into cars and headed for Idlewild. Within minutes, thousands of autos were turtle-crawling the highway mazes leading to the field, choking the roads for five miles in all directions...
...ready to make concessions at the slightest menace, there will be a war within 20 years...
...first murderous hail of bullets, Ovnand and Major Buis fell and died within minutes. Captain Howard Boston of Blairsburg, Iowa was seriously wounded, and two Vietnamese guards were killed. Trapped in a crossfire, all six might have died had not Major Jack Hellet of Baton Rouge leaped across the room to turn out the lights-and had not one of the terrorists who tried to throw a homemade bomb into the room miscalculated and blown himself up instead. Within minutes Vietnamese troops arrived, but the rest of the assassins had already fled...
...movie that moved the court to its far-reaching decision was a French version of D. H. Lawrence's notorious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. According to the New York State Board of Regents, the film was "immoral within the intent of our law," which prohibits exhibition of shows that portray "acts of sexual immorality, perversion or lewdness ... as desirable, acceptable or proper patterns of behavior." So the judges watched Lady Chatterley (played by Danielle Darrieux) make a cuckold of Sir Clifford Chatterley (Leo Genn) with Sir Clifford's gamekeeper (Erno Crisa). According to a dozen...
...devices (1958 sales: $10 million). When Bomac merged with Varian Associates this year, six key employees were piqued because they got less than 1% of the swapped stock; in April they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries of microwave tubes. "Within a year," predicts Founder Richard Broderick, former Bomac treasurer, "we'll have 100 employees. And in three years, we'll be back...