Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geographical boundaries of his command (see map, overleaf) roam south and west from the Burma-East Pakistan border to the South Pole, north along the coastline to Asia to the North Pole, and east to the continental edge...
...Sacrifice in 1937, but the work had only three performances until its present revival at West Germany's Kassel Opera House. Based on a play by the late expressionist writer Reinhard Goering,* Sacrifice tells the story of Robert Scott's last, tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1912. Its legendary hero is Lawrence Gates, who suffered frostbite and, realizing that he was jeopardizing the chances of the other members of the expedition, marched off into a blizzard in a suicidal sacrifice. In Zillig's treatment, the penguins enter the story as a kind of Greek chorus...
...famed for his syntheses of quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb mechanic type of fellow." And there is William Shockley, who with two colleagues (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) earned a 1956 Nobel Prize for creating the transistor?...
Among those at the most practical pole of space science is Astronauticist Charles Draper. In his capacity as head of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab, Draper in 1960 was working on guidance systems for space vehicles of the Dyna-Soar type ?vehicles with supporting wings to get them out of the earth's atmosphere. He sees little future for manned space exploration in Project Mercury, which uses a ballistic missile, which is shot like a bullet, has no wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says...
...extraordinary miscellany of New York's night life, no club can touch the Latin Quarter-no, not with a tenfoot pole, for sheer expensive tawdriness. Unlike the Copacabana, which concentrates on headliners (Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr.) and surrounds them with half a dozen pretty chorines and vegetation by Goodyear, the Latin Quarter spends its budget on quantity, on big casts, on halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After...