Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Envelope. If anyone in Paris knew as much about the showings as Fairchild, it was the American business envoys from the garment industry. Reason: every morning at 8 a messenger delivered to their hotel rooms a big red envelope stuffed with the cables Fairchild and his crew of seven reporters had filed to Women's Wear Daily the previous evening. Said Manufacturer Joseph Frumkes of Monarch Garment Corp.: "Even when I'm in Paris, I have to read Women's Wear to find out what's going on here...
...election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...
This week the crew-cut Coloradan and most other great skiers are training together on the slopes of Bad Gastein for the world championships. Tanned and trim, they are a friendly lot, bound together by the pleasures and perils of their craft. But when the competition starts, Bud Werner is ready to battle his buddies, is even willing to flout the maxim-especially fitted to skiing-that pride goeth before a fall. "If I say so-and I see no reason why I shouldn't-I expect to get some of the medals," he says. "In fact, I shall...
...hour-long occasion, the Steve Allen Show reconnoitered the place two months in advance, airlifted a cast and crew of 50 (plus ten wives), shipped 16 tons of lights and more than five miles of cable. On the scene, the show enlisted three dozen technicians from Havana's TV station CMQ, and laid siege to the gleaming new hotel. The hotel surrendered eagerly, put up $25,000 of the show's $40,000 extra costs, yielded its bellhops as extras, shut off its paging system and shooed its guests away from the pool to ensure undisturbed rehearsals...
...twice as much as is needed to lift it off the ground. According to a generally accepted rule of thumb, the payload that reaches escape velocity will be one one-thousandth of the starting weight: about 21 tons. This will be enough weight allowance, says Ritchey, to send a crew around the moon in reasonable comfort and safety. When better solid propellants come along (just a matter of time), Ritchey is prepared to design even better space rockets...