Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riff and Piff are an uncertain defense force. "You can't take a peasant out of a paddy, give him three weeks of training and expect him to be a red-hot soldier," says one U.S. officer. Nevertheless, supported by Vietnamese army, marine and ranger units, they stage an average of twelve major operations a month against V.C. elements on the outskirts of the city...
...opening, on Sept. 22, will be Edward Albee's fifth annual Broadway entry, A Delicate Balance. The author calls it a "naturalistic comedy," akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...seemed humdrum indeed -an almost old-fashioned journey only three-quarters of the way around the world. But that brief, 94-minute flight was final proof that the craft and its systems are spaceworthy, and that a novel re-entry technique is feasible. Apollo's success set the stage for a three-man, 14-day orbital flight as early as next December...
...Parks Commission will take absolutely no responsibility for what happens next." The New York Times was all agog over his ideas for turning Flushing Meadows, the site of two world's fairs, into a future Olympic park. A three-decker golf driving range is already in the planning stage, Moving announced, and Japan's famed architect, Kenzo Tange, responsible for the main Tokyo Olympic buildings, has been asked to advise on a new Sports Palace...
...wouldn't want an underpaid airplane mechanic to forget to change a tire, would you?" So far, Pan Am has managed to keep bargaining at a talking stage. But unless recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board are accepted, American will probably be struck on Sept...