Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial with music. After that, it was all music, and he spun his records for New York stations almost until his death...
GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey casts his cross-examiner's eye on the living habits of Playboy Prince Hugh Hefner at home in his 48-room Chicago pad...
...distress call the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes never to hear again. In the aftermath of last January's Apollo fire, NASA is spending more than $100 million to that end. By the time Astronauts Wally Schirra, Bonn Eisele and Walter Cunningham lift off a launch pad for the first manned Apollo flight next year, their spacecraft should be virtually fireproof...
This pushes Apollo to a critical launch-pad weight that is only 350 Ibs. under the Saturn 5's total lifting capacity for lunar missions. As a result, parts of Apollo's parachute system had to be enlarged or redesigned for safe landing at greater weight, and redundant systems on board have been eliminated for a weight reduction of 58 Ibs. Low hopes to peel 400 Ibs. more off Apollo by eliminating the spacecraft's lead ballast. So critical is the weight factor that even metal brackets inside Apollo are being examined for possible perforation to save...
Suicidal Stereotypes. When Sandy first arrived in Hollywood, the studios worriedly urged first aid for those front teeth that protruded and the bust that didn't. Hands off, growled Sandy. In 1962, she walked out on one television job rather than pad her bustline. She said she wanted to be hired for acting ability, period. Says Herbert Berghof, her Manhattan drama coach off and on for years: "From the beginning, she knew how to find in each character she played the story that was original and new and worth telling...