Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Short & Simple. "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high," he wrote in Carousel, "and you'll never walk alone." In a hurricane, he could unerringly find the calm center: in 1943, when wartime headlines were black with death on coral beaches, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny...
...Herman Talmadge calls his improvement "fantastic," says that setting up the technique in all Georgia schools "would be worth a $1,000,000-a-year appropriation." Predicts one of five fascinated General Electric engineers, who are now analyzing the method to see if it can help computer operations: "A storm will come up when this breaks...
...which, by their own description, gave them a "continental Ivy League" look, far more authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members of the Massadors Division of the Sportsmen, storm troopers from Manhattan's legions of delinquency. And with them-carrying a clip board and wearing striped toreador pants, white-flower earrings and gold sandals-was the woman who had rounded them...
...Author Ehren burg would have been wise to recognize that satire on those countries is best left to natives. He does better in what the Soviets had taught Roitschwantz to call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking on the Sabbath, and he cannot understand the dirty songs...
...wanted to learn to fly, Clint gladly encouraged him, allowed Bob to buy his own plane when he was 17. During World War II, air-struck Bob Hester inevitably joined the Air Corps. On Dec. 6, 1943, the B-24 that he was co-piloting disappeared in a raging storm over the Sierra Nevada. Search parties could find no trace of the plane or of its six-man crew...