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...father of four (the latest born fortnight ago) opined that one of the plane's bugs, originally diagnosed as heat condensation, was actually only the "scorching of paint inside the canopy." Skin temperature of the X-15 at the height of Walker's "by guess and by gosh" flight: a toasty...
...good deal has been made of the fact that Shelagh Delaney was only nineteen when she wrote A Taste of Honey; but this play is so fundamentally the expression of a young person that the departing audience does not gawk, "Gosh, and she's only nineteen," but soberly acknowledges her age for the challenge that it is. For Miss Delaney is indicting the older generation for having presented her (and us) with such a twisted world...
...Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some 150 U.S. singers in German-speaking houses today, constituting about 20% of the soloists. California-born Soprano Mary Gray, 29, recalls a Traviata in Karlsruhe last season: "The three leads came out for the curtain calls, and I looked around and thought, 'My gosh, we're all Americans!'' Many a U.S. singer is willing to take less than a living wage ($96 a month) in order to get a steady twelve-month contract and plenty of experience. The low pay is partially compensated for by the fact that, after 15 years...
Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...
...greenish in hue, was approaching the rim of its disk. The occultation was to start at 2:21. The minutes passed; the star edged closer to the invisible rim of the planet. "No change, no change," chanted Hynek into a tape recorder while an assistant read off the time. "Gosh, there-it seemed to go. It's definitely going, going. It's gone." Eleven minutes and 4.8 seconds later, Regulus reappeared from behind the bright edge of Venus. The star seemed to struggle to get away, clinging for five or six seconds before drifting clear...