Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to point the capsule and fire the retrorockets. They slowed his speed only slightly, but if he had been in full orbital flight, they would have curved him down into the atmosphere. Grissom's movements-he was running behind schedule in his work-were hampered as dust and bigger unidentified pieces floated around in the capsule...
...Rode Together (Ford; Columbia) is a capricious, unsuccessful but oddly likable western by Director John Ford, who starts off by making it seem clear that the film will be a horselaugh opera. Jimmie Stewart plays a grafting marshal who has a 10% piece of everything in a Panhandle dust hole, including a gorgeous sporting-house proprietress. But when a cavalry lieutenant (Richard Widmark) asks him mysteriously to ride 40 miles to the fort, Stewart scuttles away with him. The sporting lady wears a stiletto, the marshal explains, and favors marriage...
...year's Tour pitted 132 brawny-thighed riders against a brutal 2,750-mile course. Starting at Rouen, the race cut through Belgium, leaped the Alps into Italy, streaked across the south of France into the Pyrenees, and wound northeast along the stately Loire to Paris. The sunburned, dust-caked riders quit at 5 p.m. each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid up to $8,000 for the privilege. Reason: restaurants and shops can count on a 40% leap in business; hotels are booked months in advance. Nearly every newspaper in France...
...going to suffer a lot of irritation," wrote Graham Greene to the author, "when reviewers compare you to Evelyn." The reader turning to this novel is likely to suffer not so much irritation as a double take: the man staring from the dust jacket is the image of young Evelyn Waugh; the style and subject matter belong to Evelyn Waugh. But the author's name is Auberon, and he is 22 instead...
...second dust-catching rocket launched from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., carried instruments that reported micrometeorite impacts and sent the information to earth by radio. The tapes of this test will not be fully interpreted for some time, but they have already roughly confirmed the existence of the dust layer. When the analysis is finished, Dr. Soberman hopes to have a better explanation of the mysterious micrometeorite belt that hangs like a faint cloud at the outer fringe of the atmosphere...