Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice within 20 hours last week, the Air Force sent Thor rockets roaring from their Cape Canaveral pads. The first, an Soft. Thor-Able version of the missile (fitted out with a Vanguard second stage), carried an intercontinental ballistic missile nose cone, soared 5,000 miles down range. Despite elaborate homing and signaling systems, the nose cone was not recovered, but telemetry data showed that it had successfully survived a hot ride through the atmosphere...
...admitted to London's Tavistock Clinic to have an umbilical hernia repaired. Her mother could visit Laura every day, and she would be home in a week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought her occasional crying and distress were normal and unavoidable...
...Dean Martin Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Dean harmonizing with Donald O'Connor to some pleasant old soft-shoe routines. With Gisele MacKenzie. Color...
Between concerts not long ago, relaxing in his customary soft collar and black velvet neckpiece, he mused: "When I was a very young boy, I prayed to God, 'I am a very bad sinner, and I don't deserve any glory-I don't want to go to heaven. The only thing I ask: Please leave me here.' And now I want to stay here 50 years more...
MANAGE as best you can, said Nature, and pushed me into existence. Thus the mild genius of 18th century French painting, Jean Honoré Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait...