Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is simple enough. Hampton Hurl, the Director of NATCHURAD (the Peace Corps), receives orders from a relative who is Higher Up that he must personally lead a Corps mission to the tiny island of South Embalmo, PEQ. By foul and fair means, he recruits some volunteers, and flies to the island, where, to his pleased surprise, he soon solves an important South Embalmo problem: men. For, as chief Mama Tia explains, South Embalmo has no males in its population. Idyllic problem-solving days pass, until Hurl learns that Noose Publications is planning a feature on the Corps...
Another capable singing actor is Peter Gesell, playing the lead role as Hampton Hurl. Unhappily, he has to carry the burden of much of the dialogue, and his part suffers for it. In the second act, though, he breaks loose from the stale and the hackneyed, and the result is pleasing in at least two songs, "Think Right" and "My Friend...
Once again the U.S. braced to hurl Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn into orbit about the earth-and once again the flight was canceled...
...detect satellites, NORAD has a new electronic fence across the Southern states of the U.S. Its transmitters hurl radio energy hundreds of miles from the earth; its receivers catch satellite reflections for quick triangulation and tracking. It has detected space junk as small as a 14-ft. strand of wire from an old satellite. Says Captain Orville Greynolds, a spacetrack officer in Colorado Springs: "No one could launch a space vehicle and keep it a secret. We are positive we have checked and tracked all Russian objects now in space...
...weather McDonnell F4H Phantom II, which last week set a new world's speed record for jet flight of 1,600 m.p.h. To launch one of its 100 planes every 15 seconds, the Enterprise will use four steam-operated catapults that are so powerful that they could hurl a Cadillac sedan a mile and a half straight up into...