Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Town, South Africa
Wednesday, December 11 DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).- Burgess Meredith narrates this special about man against the sea. It includes wind-whipped scenes of a schooner rounding Cape Horn, the voyage of the replica of the Mayflower, and two Englishmen's crossing of the North Atlantic in a 20-ft. rowboat...
...latest goody is the "Space Food Stick." Derived from the concentrated foods developed by Pillsbury for U.S. astronauts, the stick looks like a Tootsie Roll and is soft and chewy. It comes in chocolate, peanut butter or tomato flavors. The stick, promoted with TV spots showing a Cape Kennedy blastoff, is being test-marketed in seven U.S. cities. Packs of 14 sell for 490. Space fans, candy addicts and weight watchers seem to eat it up (each stick has only 41 calories), and marketing will be expanded...
...will position their craft properly and then jettison the service module. Streaking into the earth's atmosphere at an angle of 6.5° and a velocity of 24,765 m.p.h., the 11,700-lb. command module-all that will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days...
...lecture tour, is a shy man with fine features and a soft, halting voice. And like Balthazar, he compensates for his shyness with a bold appearance, in this case, a scraggly Van Gogh kind of beard, heavy tweeds and knickers (augmented in foul weather by a cape and a Sherlock Holmes hat), and a walking stick. To all outward appearances, then, he seems like a turn-of-the-century product of the British Isles. In fact, he was born in Brooklyn of Irish parents...