Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
...stage had been inserted into orbit, the nose cone was jettisoned and the adapter's four panels slowly opened like the petals of a flower, exposing LM to its natural environment: the vacuum of space, in which it can fly as efficiently as a streamlined rocket. Then, on command from LM's on-board computer, the craft briefly fired its 100-lb.-thrust attitude-control rockets, detaching itself from the adapter base and settling into its own orbit...
...thrust descent engine, which was to begin at 10% of its rated power and gradually throttle up to almost full operational power after 26 seconds. The operation was designed to simulate the burn that would put the LM on a trajectory from the moon-orbiting Apollo command ship to the lunar surface. But after only four seconds of firing, the descent engine was shut down by LM's overcautious computer, which had sensed trouble because thrust was not being built up as rapidly as planned...
Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
...part, Sunasco suffered from a classical pitfall of corporate mergers: split management. With Wolgin and Sterling sharing command, and with a board of directors evenly divided between their supporters, a deadly stalemate persisted while problems mounted. The impasse ended only when both men turned operational control over to Rozet, a onetime production-line engineer for Douglas Aircraft who was then financial vice president of Sunasco. Rozet decided that the only solution was to rip the combine apart again...