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Locked on the Sun. But the shot was not a total flop. Ranger III was as crammed with electronic tricks as a barrel of transistor radios. Even though its launching had been faulty, it was cruising undamaged through space, its intricate apparatus still in working condition. Just 27 minutes after launch, Ranger's C.C. & S. (Central Computer and Sequencer) began issuing commands that had been stored in its electronic brain. Explosive pin-pullers released solar battery panels, which unfolded like the wings of a butterfly. At the same time, Ranger's dish-shaped, long distance radio antenna swung...
...first conference (the success) was called, or so the delegates to it imagined, to launch an Alliance for Progress, that is, a program to unite Latin America through social reform and economic development. The second (something of a flop) appeared at first to have a directly opposite purpose--For Cuba, as the State Department saw it, pervades Latin America much as the Devil occupied the New Testament herd of swine, and Mr. Rusk's proposed solution closely resembled the ancient one: to excise the Devil, you drive the herd into...
...This picture may flop in the States," says Darin's manager, "but Europe will eat it up." If Europe does, there's going to be an awful big burp...
Deeper than Woman. Ardrey is a playwright who went to Africa in 1955 to concoct magazine articles and lick his wounds after a Broadway flop (his Shadow of Heroes, a play about the Hungarian Rebellion, opened to mixed reviews last week). He was fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed...
...cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...