Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...campaign swing through upstate New York, Vice President Richard Nixon last week dropped into a press conference the kind of privileged news scoop that drives the Democrats wild. At the time of Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last fall, said Nixon, the FBI picked up two Soviet agents operating in Springfield, Mass.*-more proof, said he, that the U.S. has no reason to be ashamed of the U-2 flights over Russia. Nixon's headline brought Democratic outcries that he was playing politics with confidential information, but behind it, nonetheless, was still another untold story of ceaseless...
...Moscow apartment, where he does landscape paintings from memory, Richter listens by the hour to recordings of Rubinstein, Gieseking and Lipatti. During later tours-perhaps London or even the U.S. this fall-he is bound to show again that he belongs in that company...
...York south to Venezuela and west to Fort Worth. The 880 should fit in perfectly on Delta's medium-range (less than 1,000 miles) routes, give the line quite a jump on the competition. Says President Woolman, who expects to have ten of the planes operating by fall: "The 880 is just what I was looking for. The lack of vibration is fantastic. Vibration has the same effect on businessmen as work does-it tires them out. We want them to get there fresh and rested." Delta's Woolman has only a few months before other lines...
...will fool them, like Author Olesha. While the bosses will expect it to work mechanical marvels, "What will it actually do, their idol, the machine? It will sing our love songs, the silly love songs of the dying century, and gather the flowers of the past era. It will fall in love, become jealous, cry. dream...
Humpty Dumpty is one of the unsung muses. While a rise to eminence frequently appears studied, seemly, and something of a bore, the fall of a man, an enterprise, or a reputation is often nakedly dramatic...