Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige recovered." An Italian official put the same sentiments differently. "We say simply magari," he told an American friend, adding: "In rough translation, that means, 'Thank God, you finally went and did it.' " The British press, most of which had hooted in cheery derision at the flop of the Navy's Project Vanguard, now cheered. Wrote the London Express: "The moon's signal is a high-pitched, continuous wheeee. And that can be translated as, 'Cheer up, America. We're in the heavens, all's right with the world...
...Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who established the uniquely personal working relationship with Cape Canaveral newsmen which last week averted the ballyhoo and garbledy-gook that witlessly inflated the first Vanguard flop into a propaganda debacle for the U.S. As it turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph-after the event -not only vindicated General Yates's patient diplomacy, but mollified news editors, who had become increasingly restive under the harness...
...Yeller himself, a flop-eared hound with soulful eyes, who behaves as if he were trying to persuade Disney to invent a new cartoon character called Supermutt. He stops a bear that is charging the kid brother, rescues the older brother from a pack of wild hogs, saves the mother from being chewed up by a maddened wolf. The action, in short, is exciting for everybody, but all too often the dialogue is only for the very young. Sample: Kid Brother (after the family cow is killed) : "How come you shot old Rose?" Big Brother: "She was sick." Kid Brother...
...winter of 1957 the hour of idealism has expended itself. The little clubs and luncheon groups had seen Adlai Stevenson flop twice. Nights by the radio listening to returns embittered the early hopefulness...
...sight. CBS's The Twentieth Century is a gilt-edged newcomer, and on NBC, Omnibus has dropped the apron strings of the Ford Foundation without a break in its stride. After a slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give than to receive (TIME, Nov. 18). CBS's decision to present sponsored major-league baseball on Sunday afternoons starting next June raised...