Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came along in the second generation of astronauts in 1962, had the warmth and folksiness that Grissom lacked. In fact, when his celebrated space walk on June 3, 1965 put him in the first rank of astronaut heroes, it was as much for his offhanded casualness as for the feat itself. With the world following his every move, White stepped out of orbiting Gemini 4 at the end of a 24-ft. tether, strolled in space for a spell, then matter-of-factly informed Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's fun. I'm not coming...
Chip Otness set up Harvard's counter two minutes later when he turned on his speed to carry the puck around defenseman Don Turcotte, a not inconsiderable feat Otness repeated several times. Otness's try after circling the cage was blocked, but from there Dwight Ware muck the puck behind goalie Gary Thornon...
Ritchie produced a second Tiger tally at 4:12 of the third period, but Parrot donned his mortarboard-trick two minutes later with a duplication of Garrity's feat...
Complete Isolation. The logistics alone made it an impressive feat. Commanded by Los Angeles Lawyer Nicholas Clinch, 36, a veteran of two Himalayan ascents, the ten members of the U.S. expedition had nothing to go on except aerial photographs in planning their assault, had to do without fancy climbing rigs. And they had to prepare themselves mentally for one of the loneliest undertakings man has ever attempted. Explained Clinch before the climb: "Antarctica is not like the Himalayas, where you can always retreat to a native village if something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them...
...reason that there was no business like show business was because show business was hardly a business at all. The flamboyant, self-made movie moguls of the past had little understanding of ledgers or cost accounting; they made money almost despite themselves, a feat no longer possible under the pressures of TV and increasingly selective audiences. Nowadays, there is an acute awareness that the movie industry is big business-and that it must be run like...