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...their income from the show, will earn Rowan and Martin about $500,000 each this year. For Martin, the success is translated into the appurtenances of the swinging life-a hilltop pad, heated swimming pool, steam bath, a den filled with electronic gadgets and a black El Dorado and a yellow Corvette...
Tony Franciosa is People's handsome, daring ace reporter. His editor (Gene Barry) occupies an office that is only slightly more opulent than, say, Hugh Hefner's pad. Expense-account cash is as abundant and accessible as scratch paper. The researchers are not only resolutely clever but demure, sensuous and beautiful...
...Louvre, the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries, marking this second-rate souvenir "For export only." Aznavour's tragicomic twinkle shines through in such films as Shoot the Piano Player, but here he is required mostly to moon and bleat. Finally, the girl tearfully returns to her pad in London and the wife cheerfully returns to her flat in Paris. To explain his behavior, Aznavour tells a friend: "It's never too late to act twelve years old." That is true only...
With only 2% of NASA's heavily slashed budget at its disposal, the once-ambitious U.S. planetary-exploration program is in danger of expiring before it gets to the launching pad. Anxious to keep from "abandoning the planets to Russia," 23 top space scientists last week recommended a program designed both to appeal to congressional penny pinchers and to reach the planets. In the next seven years, the new plans could take unmanned U.S. spacecraft to Jupiter and beyond...
...Missile Range in New Mexico. Each observer had spotted the beginnings of a solar flare, an extremely hot outburst of high-energy particles on the surface of the sun that often precedes magnetic storms in the earth's ionosphere. Within minutes, an Aerobee rocket soared from its launch pad, carrying with it the largest X-ray telescope ever sent into space...