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...couple of hundred thousand for a low-budget picture. "We can't afford to make small pictures," said U.A. "We have too much overhead." The dimensions of the Perrys' story were necessarily small, and Hollywood could only have suffocated it anyway as a Blazing Psychodrama in Odd A-O with, say, Yul Brynner and Bette Davis as David and Lisa...
Telling Everything. At Cape Canaveral, a few newsmen criticize Powers for putting words in the astronauts' mouths ("A-O.K.," an expression attributed to Astronaut Shepard, is actually Powers' inspiration), and for basking in the reflection of their glory (he always talks in terms of "we," leading newsmen to call him "the eighth astronaut"). Describing what Glenn had for breakfast before last week's launch and whom he had it with. Powers let it be known that he was there, too. "I got there a little late," he confided to newsmen...
...A-O.K., Man. Brinkley's Journal got off to an unpromising start in its first program, presenting a splendid rendition of America the Beautiful on the audio while the video showed pictures of trash heaps, automobile graveyards, dump trucks dumping, and beer cans floating in the shining sea. Only a freshman in a high school journalism class would have considered it a towering achievement. But after that he settled down to some remarkable short studies, in which the camera work was vivid and the scripts (which he writes himself) tartly acute...
...country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil Harmsworth ("I'm a highbrow") King, publisher of London's Daily Mirror...
Otherwise he was A-O.K. Within minutes he was talking on the telephone with President Kennedy...