Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With deep regret, NASA Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth announced that he was clipping the wings of one of his astronauts. Because of an "erratic heartbeat," Air Force Captain Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38, was no longer eligible for a solo ride into space. The doughty Deke will be reassigned to "operational and planning" duties on the ground, though he might take a ride on a rocket as second or third man in future Gemini and Apollo shots...
...minor chef-d'oeuvre among westerns. Shot near California's Mammoth Lakes, the film owes much of its beauty to nature. The camera hovers with loving grace over limpid, mirror-bright pools, trees like green-hooded knights, and the rumpled grandeur of blue-blanketed mountains. Ride the High Country has a rare honesty of script, performance and theme-that goodness is not a gift but a quest. In the unhurried tempo of their speech, their ease of bearing, the firm-lipped gravity of their faces. Actors McCrea and Scott give the action strength and substance. The western...
...Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...
Wounds in the Jet Set. Also nursing wounds were some jet-set luminaries who had eagerly grabbed a ride on what looked like the Gilbert gravy train. In New York, Wall Street's McDonnell & Co.. whose president is Henry Ford's brother-in-law, brought suit against Man about Manhattan Jacques Sarlie, 47, a Dutch-born market operator and art collector. Sarlie. complained McDonnell, refused to pay for $754,770 worth of Bruce and Celotex stock bought for his account. (Sarlie's rebuttal: McDonnell had bought the stock without his authorization, on orders from Eddy Gilbert...
Sudden Comfort. Despite his professed disinterest in politics, Idemitsu owes his success largely to a canny ability to ride the political tides. He started with one small retail oil outlet in 1911 and steadily expanded across Japan. Then he followed the invading Japanese army into China in the 19305, pushing out U.S. and British oil companies. It was a wry joke among Japanese soldiers that whenever they captured a Chinese town, the first Japanese civilians to arrive were the "comfort girls"-and an Idemitsu...