Word: soon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indefinite terms. More surprising, LÓpez Mateos has shed the suspicious isolationism traditional to Mexican Presidents. After a friendly trip to the U.S. and Canada, he is seriously considering a U.S. request for a tracking station, as a part of Project Mercury, on Mexico's west coast. Soon he will visit Venezuela and Brazil, and he is thinking of a later visit to Moscow and other European capitals...
...world's longest (4,200 miles) microwave hookup. Canada justifies government ownership by the need for serving up Canadian culture to an audience uneconomically scattered across a vast land. But the government recognizes the merits of competition, and a new Board of Broadcast Governors (TIME, Nov. 16) will soon begin licensing private-enterprise second stations in all major cities. CBC President Alphonse Ouimet, 51, whose $17,000-a-year salary is less than one-sixth as much as NBC's President Robert Kintner's, expects to clear only $40 million in advertising revenues this year, and Parliament...
Booked into Montreal's high-tariff El Morocco nightclub, the four singing sons of aging (55) Groaner Bing Crosby soon found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short...
When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton...
...among his books: The World Treasury of Grand Opera, an excellent biography of Puccini), but he is also the man responsible for an album called Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music. His conviction: If he can get customers started on "music, any kind of music," they will soon find they cannot do without it. "As the cigarette people believe, the habit is everything...