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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flame-colored chunk fell off the rocket and hurtled into the sea. "I've never seen this before," growled a watching Air Force officer. "We're in trouble. We're in trouble. I'm sure we are." The rocket kept soaring until it disappeared from sight out over the Atlantic. But an hour later Program Director Adolph K. Thiel, somber and red-eyed, told waiting newsmen the unhappy news: "We didn't make it. Something happened. We don't know what...
When Staudacher found that he was still alive and unhurt, he climbed lightly out of the cockpit. The sight was nearly too much for old friend and fellow speed-man, Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader, onetime hydroplane driver and half owner of Tempo-Alcoa. "I expected to see crumpled metal and a crumpled body," says Lombardo. Sprinting toward the wreck, down Pelican Point, Lombardo fell heavily on the rocky shore, cut his leg so painfully that he had to be driven back to Reno. Behind the wheel: nerveless Les Staudacher...
Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the knowledge that they can avoid seeing a tombstone; graves, marked only with bronze plaques set level with the ground, are clustered in such consoling sites as Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Sweet Memories, Everlasting Love. Infants are buried in Babyland, which is "shaped like a mother's heart," and Lullabyland...
...Broadway The Miracle Worker. Closed to sound and sight, the mind of the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) is painstakingly opened by Teacher-Nurse Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) in a memorable, if far from flawless theater piece...
...become a first-class veteran, able to gauge the amount of interest, potential of comprehension, degrees of hostility, success of presentation and the need for ventilation, without any conscious effort on your part. You have a mass of antennae, which will spring to the alert position at the sight of any group gathered in a room...