Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of these complaints and criticisms that McNamara last week undertook a full-scale review of the military space program. By a happy coincidence, he was able to an nounce final approval of plans to build the Titan III, due for use in 1964 or 1965, which will be nearly three times as powerful as the rockets that lifted the Russian Vostoks into orbit. The status of other key Air Force space projects reviewed by McNamara...
...hand, and crewmen waited tensely for the starting gun that would send them off, two by two, under the stern eye of the selection committee, in pursuit of U.S. yachting's biggest prize: the right to battle Australia's Gretel next month in defense of the III in-year-old America...
...sculptors enlivened its streets and piazzas. David Smith has donated a circle pierced by a swirling, wavelike bar, supported by a pair of pincers ("It has more grace than most of my work, so I thought it belonged there"); Lynn Chadwick's batlike, three-legged Stranger III will remain on the ramp leading up from the duomo; Nino Franchini's leaping spire of torn steel will stay on the spot where it was made, a cleft between two ancient houses...
While Davis was rehearsing with a mixed cast on Long Island, Dorothy Dandridge made her debut at the Highland Park, III., Music Theater as West Side Story's Anita, a Puerto Rican role. Such occasional successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis in summer stock can be accounted for by their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says...
...talk, in which he said he will not recommend tax cuts until next year (see THE NATION). Instead, stocks went up-possibly because there was less recession talk in the air. Besides, businessmen had pretty well discounted the President's tax decision in advance. Said Robert Henry Stewart III, president of Dallas' First National Bank: "I don't know of anyone who was waiting for the speech before he went ahead with a business decision. We don't work quite that way.'' Signs of Rise. Though businessmen carry a tax burden more oppressive...