Word: crews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play, which argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins-hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternating with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
Unlike the relatively taciturn astronauts of Apollo 11, the Apollo 12 crew members are lighthearted, talkative men, as willing to banter as debate trajectories. The all-Navy crew...
...professional baseball player, and finally decided to become a dentist. Then came the Korean War, and he signed up as a naval aviator. He was hooked on flying for good. Intensely competitive, he does not relish the idea of remaining behind in the command module while his two crew mates step on the surface of the moon but seems to have cheerfully resigned himself to his assignment (''My responsibility is second only to Pete's"). He and his wife have more children than any other astronaut family: four boys and two girls...
...immediate promotion of a black worker to the position of crew-chief...
...regardless of how much experience a man claims to have had, Murphy said, the paint-crew foreman classifies him on the basis of an interview and by observ-ing his painting skills. To be classified as a journeyman, a painter must have mastered color-mixing, staining, graining, and other essential painting techniques...