Word: conrades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cannon. Ah. William Conrad has created the only consistently believable character on television since Star Trek, with the notable exception of his contemporary, Peter Falk on Colombo. Cannon, known affectionately as Fat Puss by his devoted following, frets and struts his way through week after week of Grade B and C plots, making them not only suspenseful but enjoyable. It is a rare accomplishment indeed to shine in this medium, but Conrad seems to be playing himself. As he overcomes stupidity on the program, one feels that it is a direct metaphor for his consistent battle to conquer the reigning...
...Marion Conrad, who heads her own public relations and communications firm in San Francisco: "People forget details, but they remember a flavor...
While coping successfully with one crisis after another during their 28-day stay in space, Skylab 1 Astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin still had time to act like ordinary tourists. Clicking away with their Nikons, Hasselblads and automatic cameras, they took 50,000 pictures -more than any space travelers before them. Last week, as they returned to Houston for continued postflight medical examinations and debriefings, NASA began releasing their splendid shots, some of the best ever taken in space...
...quarantine was hardly airtight. During their meeting with President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev at the Western White House, the astronauts balked at the orders of NASA doctors and did not wear face masks. "If we catch a cold," joked Conrad, "it would be an honor to catch a cold from you two gentlemen." Brezhnev joined in the banter by asking Conrad to take the two leaders up to Skylab. Nixon cheerfully nodded his assent...
...meeting with the press, the astronauts were enthusiastic about their experience in space. "It was a continuous and pleasant surprise how easy it was to live in zero-gravity, and how well you feel," said Kerwin, who attributed his own "dizziness" after splashdown to simple seasickness. Added Conrad: "I'd say very definitely that the average man or woman could fly in space." The only major change urged by the astronauts for future missions is an increase in the daily program of exercises from 30 minutes to perhaps an hour and a half to help maintain muscle tone...