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...scheduled for Saturday morning, Lamar has had to make a number of temporary shifts in what was a fairly well settled starting line-up. The middle of the line has been heaviest hit so Lamar has moved up his third and fourth guards and shifted a reserve tackle to plug up the gaps in his forward wall...
...Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clichés of derring-do, and a six-part series called The Saga of Andy Burnett, featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney...
...questions: What does a man feel when he faces a decision that might mean the difference between peace and war? How do you reconcile the doctrine of massive retaliation with the Christian ethic?) Though NBC rudely cut the Bible-quoting Secretary off in the middle of an answer (to plug other NBC shows), the net result was good human drama, "After all," says Agronsky, "this is show business. The interviewer is part actor and must work in dramatic terms...
...profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot light" that automatically relights an engine if it goes out. Meanwhile, the same problems have held up the longer-range (5,000-mile) Britannia 310 series...
...their midst is flitting off with a beakful of their business. Icelandic Airlines has four vintage DC-4 Skymasters whose seven weekly flights between Europe and the U.S. are so jammed that the wait list runs clear into mid-October. Reason: while mounting costs force every other line to plug, for fare increases, Icelandic's rates are some $100 cheaper than those of its competitors, have pushed the lean little line from 400 passengers in 1952 to an expected 30,000 this year, with revenues of close to $6,000,000. up some 25% from last year...