Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When each D.J. showed up, RCA Victor handed him $1,000,000 in "play money," but the scrip called for solid value. The D.J.s were supposed to increase their holdings by gambling and by making frequent trips to the company's "Hospitality Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments...
After his off-the-record chat with State Representative Steve Dolley one day last week, Reporter Paul Crooke of North Carolina's daily Gastonia Gazette (circ. 20,491) tossed a memo on the crowded desk of Managing Editor Bob Hallman. Gist of the memo: Dolley, a onetime Gazette staffer...
The Jupiter take-off from Cape Canaveral last week was routine. The fat, 60-ft. IRBM rose from its pad, climbed through thin clouds, curved toward the southeast and vanished among the stars. No one was surprised; of the 20 Army Jupiters fired so far, only one has failed.
In his paneled penthouse in Hamburg, Publisher Springer lives up to his middle name of Caesar, is surrounded by awed aides who dutifully scramble each morning on the floor of his bedroom for the notes he has tossed off the night before. In the crisis years of West Germany, Springer...
Telemetered Symptoms. As the Jupiter with its living cargo soared off, its transmitters radioed back a sheaf of telemetered information. Fourteen electronic channels reported the symptoms of Monkey Able, including her muscular reactions, heart sounds, temperature and respiration. There were only two failures: her electrocardiograph failed to work; at the...