Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SKOWHEGAN, ME. Lakewood Theater. Essentially a family album of George M. Co han's music, George M! gives its regrets to Broadway for an era that has passed; it's the sort of show to which the audience comes already humming the songs, most of which hold up remarkably well...
...musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff...
...their earthly ordeal seems slightly annoying and anticlimactic, the astronauts show no signs of regret. To them, the conquest of the moon was far more than a personal triumph. "We've come to the conclusion," said Aldrin on the night before splashdown, "that this has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon. More even than the efforts of one nation. We feel that this as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. Apollo 11 has surely pointed the way for an era of exploration that carry...
Long before the rocks arrived, scientists started to debate the scientific results of the lunar voyage. M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press wagered a case of champagne on his conviction that the moon actually has quakes. Certain that the moon specimens will show some evidence that there was once water on the moon, Dr. Persa Bell, director of NASA's Lunar Receiving Lab, bet a skeptical colleague a bottle of Scotch...
...rest of us? And yes, Spiro, if you want to go to Mars, we're all for it as long as, next time, more color cameras are on board. For despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions it cost, it was worth it. As even the usually jaded Walter Cronkite kept repeating Sunday afternoon, "Oh, boy!" Yes, Walter, for once we agree. Oh, boy! is correct...