Word: outerness
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...soon clear that no one was really interested in Sinatra et al. Comedian Ernie Kovacs and Lenore Lemmon began talking Hungarian. "I think this program is all outer space," sloshed Joe E. Lewis at one point. Queried Host David: "What's outer space?" Reply: "Outer space is when you're 20 feet away from the bar." Trouble was, hardly anyone was. Gleason rose up, announced, "I'm going to retire to my home in Peekskill," then sat down again. Said Shor: "I'll take a little tea here." "Somebody throw another tea ball in that poor...
...chairman of a Los Angeles steel corporation, McCone was invited to the White House to speak his mind -and, for an hour and a quarter, he did just that. McCone approved Kennedy's decision to resume testing, urged the President not to declare himself against atmospheric tests, since "outer-space tests may be necessary in the future...
...Christian belief in life after death: "As to paradise, we have heard a lot about it from the priests. So we decided to find out for ourselves. First we sent up our explorer, Yuri Gagarin. He circled the globe and found nothing in outer space. It's pitch dark there, he said; no Garden of Eden, nothing like heaven. So we decided to send another. We sent Gherman Titov and told him to fly for a whole day. After all, Gagarin was up there only an hour and a half. So he might have missed paradise. We told...
Seeking a Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...
...promising start. It was led by some of the nation's ablest officials, who had been driven to despair by the chaotic rule of affable President Sukarno. From Sumatra to the Celebes, more than 100,000 men flocked to the rebel colors. Demanding more autonomy for the outer islands and prompt suppression of Indonesia's potent Communist Party, the rebels initially got cloak-and-dagger assistance from Washington's ubiquitous C.I.A...