Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Building such machines meant that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena had to build an entirely new and difficult technology. But last week's performance of Ranger VII was an intricate exercise in perfection. The Atlas booster took off from Cape Kennedy as routinely as a commuter leaving for the railroad station. After the Atlas dropped off, the Agena second stage put Ranger VII in a parking orbit, and twenty-two minutes later, the Agena fired again, giving the spacecraft the correct speed and direction to take it to a rendezvous with the moon...
...Fair year, as a tourist attraction. Hotels had reported more than 500 reservations canceled, and Wagner, making a patently preposterous claim, said that "no single visitor to our city has been physically attacked or brutalized in any way." That was news to Max Colwell, 61, manager of the famed Pasadena Tournament of Roses, who, only five hours before, had been beaten and robbed of nearly $1,000 while visiting New York...
WENDY WALKER Pasadena, Calif...
...Brass Bottle. "This is not Baghdad, it's Pasadena!" croaks Tony Randall as a camel caravan approaches his front lawn. From the antique urn that he bought for a gift, he has uncorked a fat green djinni, waiting to get out and wield magic. Randall's djinni happens to be Burl Ives, who complicates a routine romantic farce by conjuring up slaves, seneschals, dromedaries, elephants, a shapely blue djinniyeh (Kamala Devi) and a tonic belly dancer (LuLu Porter). Soon, of course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore...
...have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles-into Glendale and Burbank, Eagle Rock, and Verdugo City and Pasadena...