Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Painted wax sculpture by Harry Jackson. A Chicagoan, Jackson, 45, followed Horace Greeley's advice not once but many times. At the age of 14, he ran away from home to seek his fortune in a romantic place called Cody, Wyoming. There he learned the hard realities of a cowpoke's life until World War II and service in the U.S. Marines (Purple Heart at Tarawa). After the war and art studies in Europe, he headed West again, where he still spends part of each year on a ranch near Lost Cabin, Wyo. His brilliant paintings...
...such show-business greats as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers-Where's Charley (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Based on Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls was Loesser's masterpiece; he ran a perfect string of straight sevens with the hottest musical dice Broadway had seen in years...
Other entrepreneurs hastened to make the most of the moon shine. One Los Angeles breadmaker placed a TV commercial extolling "Helms-the bread on the moon." A New York supermarket chain ran a picture of the moon-"238,000 miles from Waldbaum's"-and beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications...
...second Apollo experiment also ran into difficulty. Astronomers at the McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Calif., and the Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, were unable to locate the lunar reflector, an arrangement of 100 prisms that they hoped would reflect laser beams from earth. The beams were to be used as a precision measuring tool that would yield, among other things, the exact distance between earth and moon, proof of whether there is really any drift between continents and accurate figures on the earth's wobble. The major reason for the trouble...
Stewart's father ran a small garage near Dumbarton, and his mother was a lively lady who liked to roam the moors in modified sports cars. After her first son's ill-starred attempts at a racing career, though, she had no intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships...