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With its pistol grip and nubby barrel, the instrument looks like the handy ray gun with which Buck Rogers and Wilma used to zap Killer Kane. It is actually a space-age wrench. Cordless and battery-powered, it was designed by Martin Marietta as a zero-reaction power tool to be used by astronauts for turning nuts and bolts in the weightless conditions of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Handy Wrench for Space | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Minutes later, Stevenson, accompanied by Mrs. Marietta Tree, an old friend and a fellow member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, stepped out of the embassy onto Grosvenor Square. Stevenson obligingly paused to pose for a photographer. Then he and Mrs. Tree strolled down the street. About 200 yards away, in front of the International Sportsmen's Club, Stevenson staggered slightly, grabbed his companion's arm, and said, "I feel faint." Then he collapsed. Mrs. Tree cried to the club's doorman: "Quick, come! Could you come at once and help?" She knelt over Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Graceful Loser | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...Jazz Dance Workshop has appointed the following officers for the coming year: Ron E. Porter '68, director: Marietta Stevenson '66, assistant director; and William E. Dunham '653, producer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Dance Election | 3/23/1965 | See Source »

Perhaps the most impressive single performance of the production was Marietta Stevenson's portrayal of the girl. Miss Stevenson is a fine dancer and actress. But most important, she seems to radiate personality from the stage. Ron Porter, the painter, was as expressive here as he was skillful and facile in the other two numbers...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: Jazz Dance Workshop | 3/13/1965 | See Source »

Died. Jeanette MacDonald, 57, Hollywood's reigning soprano in the 1930s and early '40s, who teamed with Nelson Eddy to make eight slight, sweet, surefire musicals (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie), becoming one of MGM's biggest drawing cards, later embarking on a second, modestly successful career as a touring concert singer, all the while remaining happily married, since 1937, to Actor Gene Raymond; of a heart attack; in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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