Word: soared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recordings of the Century" series presents Prokofiev's own performance of his Third Concerto as he recorded it in London in 1932. Pianist Prokofiev sails through the familiar, exhilarating, gently ironic music with a rock-sure rhythmic stride, a springy touch and a tone that can melt or soar into green lyrical fancies...
...Project Dyna-Soar, to shoot a manned rocket-powered aircraft into orbit around the earth and return. Martin and Boeing were named by the Defense Department to head two teams of companies that will present competing proposals for the Dyna-Soar contract. Aerojet was picked to help develop the power plant and the test facilities for the Boeing team...
...year (equaling TV's Jack Paar), lives in Beverly Hills and drives a 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III. With her four-octave range, which she claims matches the eerie range of Peruvian Vocal Acrobat Yma Sumac, she can take off from low C below middle C and soar to C above high C. But this endowment also drives Gloria to despair: nobody wants to hear her sing straight...
SPACESHIP ORDERS will come soon from Washington. Decision now is being made on which companies are to get multimillion-dollar contracts for "Dyna-Soar" (from dynamic soaring), i.e., vehicle that will be boosted up like a rocket but will have wings and controls to permit pilot to orbit freely around globe, then glide back to earth...
...week's end, the Dodgers were far back in sixth place. But so many fans turned out to watch the homers soar over the left-field screen that when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, the Dodgers drew the largest crowd ever to watch a National League night game (60,635). With all those paying guests, the Dodgers could well afford the modest cost ($2 apiece) of all those lost balls...