Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flying" his ship with brief bursts of energy from the appropriate rockets, Capsule Commander Grissom brought it absolutely level. Then he fired two forward-pointing rockets for precisely 73 seconds. Molly slowed down; the apogee of her orbit dropped by 34 miles. The spacecraft was now on an almost circular course...
...attitude toward China should not depend on our opinion of the Chinese system," said Benjamin L. Schwartz '38, Professor of Chinese History, in a brief interview yesterday. "We don't have to approve of the system to make our policy more flexible...
...last and highest, praise must go to director John Lithgow for the gall to undertake such a production and the imagination to make it succeed. His numerous bits of comic stage business, his theatrical playfulness and inventiveness kepp the brief duets as exciting as the raucous tavern scenes and intricate dances. Under Lithgow's broad, farcical hand, The Beggar's Opera sparkles...
...Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum for several hours, and U.S. space-suit experts, who were deeply impressed by the pictures of Leonov's brief excursion, suspect that his suit could do the same...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...