Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Wearing shorts and slim jims, a Stratford, Ont. Festival troupe in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Studio Seven in Toronto last week began a rigorous 100 hours of rehearsal before the mast of H.M.S. Pinafore. Six weeks hence, the Gilbert & Sullivan classic will open a Canadian fall television season full of attractions that many a U.S. viewer will envy...
...next summer, or fall at the latest, Americans will be able to take their polio vaccination in three month-apart swallows of live-virus vaccine instead of being dependent on the hypodermic needle for injections of the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service said he had been convinced that it is now possible to manufacture a live-virus vaccine "suitable for use in the U.S." Whether this unexpectedly abrupt decision was the result of mounting evidence of safety or of pressure on the Government by live-virus advocates...
...publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius' footing was getting shaky, is said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius was taken down to be melted into wartime scrap in 1942. In her place today stands a lonely lightning...
When the lodge secrets were published in July, National Leaguers could not wait to see Black Sheep Brosnan trip over his big mouth and fall right out of baseball. "You think this book was funny?" chortled Cardinals' Manager Solly Hemus, Brosnan's pet hate and the man who traded him to Cincinnati. "Wait until you see him pitch...
...most dramatic is New Orleans, where Louisiana's Governor Jimmie Davis seems determined to repeat the Little Rock debacle. To block a federal court order for first-grade integration this fall, Davis recently seized control of the city's public schools. Under new state laws, he was empowered to close any integrated school. In turn, the federal courts might have closed all schools in the state...