Word: capes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blakey was marked by bizarre incidents as well as musical highlights. Art Blakey amused the audience by running on and off stage carrying his cymbals as the fanatics pleaded for an encore. The height of weirdness came when a violinist with a shaved head and a black cape (name unknown--referred to merely as "The Phantom") lurked around the stage in the middle of the first number. His ostentatiousness led the other musicians to bar him from taking a solo in the second number...
...Star City is only part of the Soviet space plant. In contrast to Houston, it does not have control of spacecraft during flights. Mission controllers are stationed at the Tyuratam launch site - equivalent to Cape Kennedy - which is located some 1,600 miles away in Kazakhstan. Nonetheless, Star City's role is extremely important...
Like Nettles Island, most luxury camps are situated in well-traveled areas. Outdoor Resorts' 980-site camp near Orlando is within an hour's drive of Walt Disney World, Cape Kennedy and the Cypress Gardens at Winter Haven. In Gatlinburg, Tenn., both Outdoor Resorts and its major rival, Venture Out in America, Inc., run campsites across from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, the most popular national park...
...John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most of the books are predictable concoctions of espionage and sex in exotic settings. Hunt is said to earn $20,000 a year from his writing...
Toiling round the clock, scores of technicians and scientists at NASA'S centers -Cape Kennedy, Houston, Huntsville, Ala., and Langley Research Center, Va., as well as in the labs and workshops of the space agency's private contractors -worked feverishly to put together the assortment of gear and tools that was needed to repair Skylab. The astronauts themselves practiced the various repair possibilities. Indeed, these activities continued until the very eve of last week's launch; so many new and untried procedures were involved that the command module was not fully loaded until four hours before Friday...