Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then working as a CBS stage manager, brought his Shakespeareans out of a Lower East Side Sunday-school room and began drawing crowds to an amphitheater in Manhattan's East River Park. He moved the following year to Central Park with fine productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, settling down with apparent permanence and the blessing of Moses. But before long, a celebrated feud arose in which the commissioner tried to force Papp to charge admission, claiming that festival audiences were damaging Central Park's crab grass. Papp took the case to court...
...They have some hot airplanes there with hotheaded kids flying them," he reported later), and the gunman might start shooting if any passengers tried to storm the door. He got Oquendo's permission to make one laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a passenger that wants to go to Cuba, so we're taking him. Please stay in your seats and offer no resistance." As they approached Havana, the escorting F-102 turned back. Electra Copilot John Yandell got the pirate's approval to ask Key West...
...boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough in a restaurant washroom was for "gentlemen who had dined too well to vomit into...
...remaining hopes that Moscow might agree to a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. To President Kennedy's warning that the U.S. might have to begin testing again if no agreement is reached in Geneva, Khrushchev retorted: "Such threats will frighten no one. We must warn these gentlemen: the moment the United States resumes nuclear explosions, the Soviet Union will promptly start testing its nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union has quite a few devices that have been worked out and need practical testing." In fact, said Khrushchev, echoing an argument often made by protesting U.S. officials, a failure to match...
...Democrat Hartsfield will probably be longest remembered for his notable progress in the field of civil rights. He added the first Negroes to the police force in 1948, brought the 1951 N.A.A.C.P. convention to Atlanta (addressed one session personally, using the almost-unheard-of salutation: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen . . ."), desegregated the city's golf courses in 1956, recently ended taxicab segregation. Last week, as he discussed his departure, puckish Baptist Hartsfield could not resist one final rap to redneck knuckles: a threat to reconsider if the Democratic primary nominates an unworthy successor...