Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in New York, Virginia saw Bing (and other officials and artists) at the Met, and he made no secret of the interest he took in being a TIME cover subject. "Is it still on?" he would ask. Writer Ray Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum both had separate talks with Bing, took an exhaustive tour of the new house from the Top-of-the-Met restaurant to the basement practice rooms eight floors below, and saw rehearsals of the opening work, Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
...astronomers, is in the Milky Way Galaxy; it is between 300 and 3,000 light-years from the earth, and could be about 100 million miles in diameter. Though it has some of the spectral characteristics of a nova, a star that suddenly flares up, the X-ray-emitting envelope of gas surrounding it is apparently not expanding. This leads Giacconi to speculate that ScoX-1 may be a cloud of gas condensing into an infant star, or an existing stellar system surrounded by a gas cloud. "Or," he says, "we may be looking at an entirely new type...
...festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed by France's gifted Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and blessed by the presence in the leads of Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Fahrenheit is a Ray Bradbury story that takes a disturbing look at a future world in which the printed word is forbidden and every last book is burned. (The temperature of the title is that at which "a book catches fire and turns to ashes...
...just a million laughs. Like, haha, the pointy-headed captain (Dick Shawn) who went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...