Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unbelievable," says WKBF General Manager Jay Berkson. The telegenic mayor had turned down earlier requests to do regular evening shows like those of New York City's John Lindsay or Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Berkson sold him on the afternoon program as a way to "reach the kids before their ideas and prejudices develop." "Why not?" agreed Stokes. "I've had so little time for my own two children, they might enjoy seeing me on television...
Astrophysicist Richard Henry and his NRL associates crammed X-ray detectors into the nose of an Aerobee rock et last September and fired it high above the atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth. Telemetry from one detector designed to spot "soft" or low-energy X rays emanating from intergalactic space showed unexpectedly high readings. What- in apparently empty space - was producing this radiation...
...decided to buy 30 DC-10s at a total price of $465 million, and had taken options to buy 30 more of the huge three-engine planes. The order put McDonnell Douglas back into the thick of the fight for the international airbus market which is expected to reach at least 1,000 aircraft worth $15 billion in the next decade...
...Omensetter's Luck, two years ago, when he was 41. He shares James's pragmatism, his commitment to form and to the senses, his cheerless affirmation willed out of an all too obvious despair. The despair seems to rise from the conclusion that ultimate answers are beyond reach; Gass puts his faith in the structure of his prose and the intense physicality of his words. Death imagery crackles through these pages like winter wind through a cornfield, yet the characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into...
...justice or sagacity rule, will pack the Brattle Theatre for the next five nights has been raised and schooled on William Shakespeare. But it shares perhaps too much with the larger audience, the dark army of a hundred million anonymous innocents whom any film must ideally strive to reach. For all of us, Shakespeare is familiar, if only by reputation; for all of us, the plays themselves are comfortably exciting, predictably praiseworthy, sometimes dull, and too often peripheral...