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Originally, like the Russians' dummy in a spaceship, the shot had been scheduled to impress the world on the eve of the summit, but technical failures delayed...
...pride and developed in obstinacy. Launched six years ago on the notion that whatever the U.S. could do, Britain could do better. Blue Streak was intended to maintain Britain's status as a fully accredited great power alongside Russia and the U.S., at the very least to impress lesser nations. But last week Harold Macmillan's government had to face the cold fact that Britain could not afford such empty displays of national pride. To put Blue Streak on the pads, fully operational and in real numbers, would cost something like $1.5 billion over the next five years...
...movies. Sarnoff's dismal prediction, say pay TV's supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with the prediction that Rin Tin Tin would disappear if pay TV were authorized...
...Icebergman. Yet the burning lover, both Bergman and his women agree, has a heart of ice. "The Icebergman," some have called him, and he himself has often confessed that he cannot really feel. About women he once mused: "All of them impress me. I would like to kill a couple of them, or maybe let them kill me." An author who knows him well be lieves that "there is no tenderness or consideration in the man. Sometimes you feel as if inside him there is no one at home...
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...