Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in. pillow of foam on the last 3,000 ft. of the runway...
Great Is My Country (Sovexportfilm) is the Soviet Union's loaded propaganda weapon sent along to accompany Russia's cultural exhibition (TIME. July 6). Filmed in a washed-out Red version of Cinerama called Kinopanorama, featuring a record-breaking-and superfluous-total of nine stereophonic sound tracks. Great Is My Country's 1½-hour barrage turns out to have been fired by a small bore...
...were actually American: General Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story, The Three Faces of Eve, Young Man with a Horn, The Man with the Golden Arm. But Vian's greatest success was still The Spitter, and to ensure accuracy in the movie version, the producer sent Director Michel Gast to the U.S. to soak up atmosphere. The outlandish results seemed more than satisfactory to French critics. "Nothing shocks us in this reconstitution," reported Le Canard Enchaineé "It is as if we were seeing an American film perfectly dubbed." Only the Paris Herald Tribune...
...occultation of Regulus become a serious concern of world astronomy. The U.S. was ruled out as a major observation point because Venus and Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...
...published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...