Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surveyor program, which now has successfully soft-landed four out of the six spacecraft sent moonward. This remarkable average-as improbable as a pitcher tossing four no-hit games in six starts-is perhaps the greatest technological feat in the first decade of the space age. Russian space scientists have parachuted an instrument package onto Venus, but have yet to develop the approach radar and rocketry system that can set an unmanned spacecraft down on the airless moons as gently as a helicopter touches down on a landing strip...
Also on the stump was Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, who began a weeklong, six-city tour of Ohio in the hope of getting the 433,100 signatures he needs to have his name placed on the ballot there as an independent presidential candidate. The feat is probably beyond Wallace's band of eager amateurs, but he was drawing sizable audiences, as he had the week before on the West Coast. If nothing else, the natty gnat promises to be a disruptive influence...
...problem of the PCV as he closed the OLAS conference Aug. 10. Alternately pleading with his audience through a pity-me-hurt-little-boy argument, then pouring out a withering sarcasm and finally fulminating moral indignation, Fidel delivered a devastating attack on the Venezuelans. By some amazing feat of logic, he linked them to what he called the "International Mafia," which includes the full battery of demons--the American press, the CIA, the Israelis, and other assorted ghouls...
...announcement following the feat, Tass hinted windily at the purpose of the unmanned docking maneuver. The mission, it said, was a step toward the "creation in orbit of big scientific space stations capable of carrying out complex and multifaceted exploration of outer space and planets." Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory, agreed that this was "a logical explanation." But Lovell, as well as other Western observers, believes that the space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform circling the earth. All this is necessary...
...long regarded as America's top chorus master, conducted clean, well-balanced though somewhat earthbound readings of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Copland's recently revised Canticle of Freedom. The evening's climax-Beethoven's formidable Ninth ("Choral") Symphony-was a feat of musical levitation. The intelligence and spirit of the interpretation, along with the sheer force and clarity of Shaw's baton, lifted the performance above its own technical flaws-some faulty string playing, moments of rhythmic dislocation-to provide music that frequently soared with an exhilarating sense of freedom...