Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
...Hollywood Palladium. All of this leaves Bob Marcucci, 29, feeling like a waxworks Pygmalion, but without worries about the future. When Fabian grows old-18 or 19, that is-he will still have the movies. The boy's notion that he might like to have a crack at college is something Marcucci should be able to handle. There is only one danger that may yet spoil a potentially brilliant career: all of a sudden, Fabian has decided that he would really like to learn how to sing...
...Canaan, Moses sent twelve men headed by Joshua, son of Nun. Last week a scouting party of about the same size left almost the same place near the Sinai border of Israel to spy out the same land, Israel's forbidding Negev desert. Ten were amateur archaeologists and crack rifle shots from Israeli frontier villages. The eleventh and leader was Dr. Nelson Glueck, 59, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, an archaeologist-rabbi as lean and as leathery as Joshua. His purpose: to uncover traces of people who inhabited the Negev back to Moses' time...
...quiet evening in the sleepy little town of Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon, base camp for the South Vietnamese crack 7th Infantry Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average...
...rocket does not fly; too high, and it bursts like a bomb. Very slight defects or miscalculations can raise the pressure to the danger point. The rocket can explode if the nozzle is a few thousandths of an inch too small. A solid propellant may crack, sharply increasing the burning rate. Unburned propellant can block the nozzle, or flame can burn a hole in the thin casing. As any Cape Canaveral man knows, not even the pros can anticipate all possible ways for the rocket's restrained explosion to become unrestrained. Their motto: "Always assume that a rocket will...