Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Fireman Glass collected $197.97 for his first twelve days in the diesel cab. He paid his rent, bought a new watch for his wife, new shoes for himself. He has already experienced one brief layoff in his short railroad career, but it did not bother him. "That's railroadin', I guess," he says...
...personal letter to Kennedy, Khrushchev asked the President to realize that he, too, was up against political pressures. Meeting in Moscow, Comecon, the pallid satellite version of the West's Common Market, formally approved the test ban treaty, with Rumania somewhat belatedly in line after a brief flirtation with Peking. As for the Chinese, they denounced the treaty as nothing less than a U.S.-Russian alliance, accused Moscow of perpetrating "a dirty fraud," and of "selling out" Communists everywhere, "including the people of China." The Soviets replied in kind, called the Red Chinese "wild men" who borrow their arguments...
...decided that, by definition, leggy, red-maned Christine Keeler, 21, and blonde, baby-faced Mandy Rice-Davies, 18, were prostitutes.* If either was dismayed at being formally branded a whore, neither showed it. At the London premiere of Cleopatra and an otherwise exclusive buffet supper afterward, Mandy in a brief blue gown that was designed by herself (and looked it) stole the limelight...
...blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin with a slow, throaty, lyrical blues, punctuate the piece with jagged staccato yelps of outrage, and then tap the stops with his fingers like a woodpecker beating...
...tests. At present, they are the only practical policemen U.S. science can build. When a nuclear bomb explodes in the vacuum of space, it does not give the great flash of light that it gives in the atmosphere. About two-thirds of its total energy appears as a brief, enormously powerful burst of soft X rays, rather like those that are used to treat skin diseases. Those soft X rays cause a soft glow when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated long before they reach the earth. There are also small amounts of gamma rays. Like...