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...little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold wig and performed some extraordinary contortions, including a sort of sideways hopscotch interrupted by seconds of statuesque immobility on one foot...
...which supplies nonscientist help, has jumped to 1,600 from 878 in 1960. Total employment at the site is now about 2,500. On the great barren area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities agree that any further bomb testing will be done underground to avoid contaminating the atmosphere or the ocean, a force of hard-rock miners is busily digging tunnels into the mountains...
Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronamy, said in a lecture to the gathering that there may well be undiscovered planets similar to Pluto in our solar system. He then described Pluto and graphically demonstrated the planet's distance from...
...Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down the Mississippi Davey does go, with his Uncle Jim, a cigar-smoking Civil War veteran and college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond of saying "howsom-ever''; Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass, an engaging purveyor of something called Distilled Essence of Spooju (43% alcohol, 57% swamp water), who strikingly resembles W. C. Fields; and the doctor's nubile daughter Millie...
...modern idiom, so that when not dittying "Whoever is chaste has got to be chased," they talk of sponsors, top brass, secret weapons, summit meetings and population explosions. Against all this, the evening offers Jan ice Rule as a Diana down in Athens from Olympus, Cyril Ritchard as a Pluto up from Hades, attractive William and Jean Eckart sets. The musical also has at least one good Dania Krupska ballet, and some of Offenbach's best and best-known tunes...