Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies in a stunning vocal technique that in the last three years has lifted her into the haughty company of the world's finest. Standing there beside her are five singers, whose achievement challenges the memory of some of opera's most hallowed names. The other five: Ma ria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Eileen Farrell, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price...
Robert Alan Morse is 30 years old but looks as if he were pushing 19. Small and compact, with a boyish shock of unarranged light brown hair, bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression...
Simulated Stoic. Around the earth arced MA-4, its simulated astronaut breathing, sweating, and chattering steadily in its recorded voice. Strung around the globe, 18 Mercury radio stations picked up the signals, reported the capsule's progress. After 88 minutes, when MA4 was nearing Guaymas on the west coast of Mexico, its three retrorockets were fired by a timing device, its speed was cut by 350 m.p.h., and it began a gentle descent toward the dense lower atmosphere...
...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
Vastly cheered by MA-4's triumph, NASA space engineers feel that a manned orbital flight is now all but accomplished. Within weeks, they will probably make final tests by putting a chimpanzee into orbit. If the chimp fares well, a human astronaut may follow before the end of the year...