Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guiana coast to be rilled out with rows of launch cranes, quarters for technicians and a master command post. The French government has allotted an initial $60 million, and French agents are shopping in French-speaking Caribbean islands for 5,000 workers. Construction on what has already been nicknamed Cape de Gaulle is to start late next year, and France's first missile firings from South America are scheduled for early...
Albee has written a drama of the post-Christian mentality, but its only emotional vitality derives from Christian symbolism and experience. When Julian is shot, Miss Alice is wearing a dress and cape of blue, a color associated with Mary, the mother of Christ, and she cradles Julian in her arms in the agony of a Pietá. Other invocations of Christianity include the fiery end of the world, Christ's years in the wilderness, his marriage to his church, and his Crucifixion. But the mockery in all this is that Albee regards Christ crucified, or any martyr...
...contrary, TV takes care of the overhead and expands the budgetary possibilities for big films. In its short existence as a major producer, MCA has made an impressive number of profitable pictures. Father Goose, Gary Grant's new one, is doing well at Radio City Music Hall. Freud, Cape Fear, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillow Talk, That Touch of Mink, Operation Petticoat, Spartacus, The Chalk Garden and Charade are all MCA-Universal movies too. The company's next major release will be Strange Bedfellows...
F.D.R. is remembered for his navy blue cape, Eisenhower for his Homburg, and Kennedy for the jaunty way he carried the top hat that he really didn't want to wear. Lyndon Johnson wants to be remembered as the man in the business suit. In a break with prevailing custom, the White House announced that Johnson will attend the Inauguration wearing "an Oxford gray suit, black shoes and a fedora...
...days last week, it seemed as if the U.S. and Soviet Russia were racing each other to Mars. No sooner had the U.S. launched Mariner IV from Cape Kennedy than the Russians put up Zond (for Probe) II. Scientists speculated that the Soviets' more powerful rockets might have given the Red spacecraft enough extra push to carry it past Mariner on the 228-day, 325 million-mile voyage to the red planet. But the race was not so much a contest between nations as it was a confrontation with the inexorable geometry of planetary orbits. Both Russia...