Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Righter does not have all the big-name clients; Marilyn Monroe, Clifford Odets, and Susan Strasberg, for instance, seek their zodiacal advice elsewhere. When he first met Monroe, Righter made a bid to impress her and said: "I know-you're a Gemini. Did you know you were born under the same sign as Rosalind Russell, Judy Garland and Rosemary Clooney?" Marilyn looked him straight in the eye and answered: "I know nothing about those people. I was born under the same sign as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Queen Victoria and Walt Whitman...
Moscow billed the missile shot as a test of a peaceful space-exploration vehicle, but it was unmistakably an exercise in political muscle flexing, designed to impress the U.S., its allies, and the world's sideline countries with the spectacle of Soviet missile might. Viewed with cool reason, the Pacific shot represented no missile breakthrough. The U.S. Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, already operational in small numbers, has flown more than 6,000 miles, has a potential range of 8,000 miles or more. And Atlas' accuracy, proved in several tests, is as close...