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PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H., March 21 -- In mid-spring weather on Wildcat Trail, two of New England's top performers captured Eastern downhill crowns today.
THE theatre of our time owes its present form to the avant-garde artists who sailed across the dark sea of experiment some two or three score years ago, Ibsen, Gordon Craig, Stanislavsky, Strindberg and a few others at the prow, who took the risk of exploring strange lands and of bringing back the unfamiliar things they had created out of their discoveries for all to see.
THE author of "Flying Tiger," Robert Lee Scott Jr., recently retired from the United States Air Force with the rank of brigadier general after thirty years of service during which he flew everything from ancient Jennys to F-104 jets. He logged an incredible 20,000 hours, and in World War II completed an awesome 388 combat missions, much better than par for the course.
McElroy, in House com testimony, reptdly said all means, including ground troops, would be used in event of war
1959Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Matthew Avery Modine is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]