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...baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types. While making one of TV's biggest splashes and giving impetus to a cycle of fairy tales,* Cinderella also displayed the gulf that can still yawn between TV standards and those...
...Salzburg, at Bayreuth and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54). Few could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast performance of Otello, Soprano Herva...
Charlie Wilson tried to soften the blow against the Army by pointing out that the peacetime assignments did not necessarily predetermine the weapons and forces that field commanders could use in war time. He also promised that the Army could conduct "feasibility studies" on the use of an intermediate-range missile. But his assurances did not mollify the Army brass. Snapped a top Army planner when Wilson's decision was handed down: "This thing isn't going to stop us." The Army's probable next line of defense: congressional hearings at budget time...
...that the proposed satellite (21.5 Ibs., 20-in. diameter) reaches a maximum speed of 18,000 m.p.h., Drs. Carl Gazley Jr. and David J. Masson point out that the temperature of its skin should not rise much above 2,000°F. Although most common metals either melt or soften at this temperature, alloys recently developed for the turbine blades of jet engines are capable of withstanding it. So should an alloy-constructed satellite. A returning satellite could not only show the subtle effects of cosmic rays but could also bring back with it pictures of what the earth looks...
Instead next morning allied planes and ships began to soften up Port Said for a seaborne landing. When the bombardment ended, commandos, more paratroopers and armor began to pour ashore. (One Royal Marine Commando, 500 strong, made the trip from ship to shore by helicopter, thereby scoring a first in the history of amphibious warfare.) Some headed down the canal, got within 20 miles of Ismailia before the cease-fire took effect. Others, supported by tanks, probed through the streets of Port Said slowly cleaning out stubbornly resisting remnants of the Egyptian army and the irregulars of Nasser...