Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 26 story on Pabst's 100 millionth barrel celebration in Mettenheim, Germany, presented an interesting point of view on the value of corporate celebrations that involve the press. There is, as I'm sure you're aware, another side to the story...
...measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then had more hopes and fears-fears that the Communists were about to take over Indonesia lock, stock and barrel; hopes that the rebels would be able to arrest the Communist drift...
...prima donna of the center will be a new Metropolitan Opera House, designed by Architect Wallace K. Harrison to rise from a plaza the size of Venice's San Marco. Created in a style Architect Harrison calls "modern baroque," the new Met will have five huge, barrel-vault cantilevers rising to a height of eight stories at the entrance, grille-and-glass façaded sides, and a horseshoe interior seating 3,800 (v. the Met's 3,612). The 108-ft.-deep stage will be serviced by a 14-story stage loft and three movable stages...
...Time for Sergeants (Warner), adapted from a Broadway hit adapted from a 1954 bestseller, is a sometimes hilarious little Parable of the Willing Draftee-the story of the horrible things that can occur when one good apple happens to get into the barrel...
...barrel in this case is the U.S. Air Force, and Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a pippin. The hillbilly is so dumb he thinks R.O.T.C. is a disease; but he like to bust, he's that crazy about "thuh Ayuh Fowerce." After his first visit to the mess hall, he happily hollers, "Nevah had sech a fill a beans in mah whole lahf...