Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three unmanned Apollo launches will be held this year, in September, October and December. The first manned shot with Schirra and his crew is set for next March-13 months behind the pre-tragedy schedule. However, NASA planners are hopeful that advances in spacecraft design and the lessons learned from the fire will make up for lost time and put the program back on schedule...
Freer Format. Lesser-known prospects get screened at pre-interview sessions. Comedienne Joan Rivers was rejected six times before she was considered ready; she has been on 18 times since. After the talent is selected, Tonight staffers rough out a crib sheet for Carson, proposing possible lines of questioning and the guest's likely answers. Carson rarely talks to the guests beforehand, lest "they leave their fight in the gymnasium...
...kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because the Labor Party itself was opposed to the idea. As the London Times observed the next day: "The present situation of Britain has all the inconvenience of the temporary; it is post-imperial and pre-European. No exists." realistic alternative to joining Europe...
...Pre-race predictions pick Harvard's varsity and freshman heavies and the junior varsity lights to win. The varsity and freshman lights, both undefeated so far, have more than a good chance for upsets...
...uprising was in fact what Grass recreates. Like The Boss, he is snatching a bit of history and reworking it for his own ends. And his justification can be found in The Boss as well, to whom history is fantasy and the present is fact. Brecht -- politically disappointed with pre-war Germany and post-war America--meets the present for one last time in the German Democratic Republic. Finally perceiving the incongruity of his politics within and without the theatre, he retires to the countryside to contemplate trees and perhaps write poems about them. Grass, acutely aware of this same...