Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, and undergraduates may get independent study credit for directing them. A Friday the 13th production of the current Loeb show ends when part of the set is raised too high, smashes into another part, and shows signs of falling back 50 feet onto the stage...
Shuffling the Standings. After a plague of misfortune and mismanagement had put it three years behind schedule, the Surveyor success was doubly sweet. Equipment broke down during tests and had to be redesigned. The second-stage Centaur-the first liquid-hydrogen rocket-had several mishaps and had flown only one completely successful mission before last week's shot. Summarizing the program, the House Space Committee characterized it as "one of the least orderly and most poorly executed NASA projects...
...Since it was the Whitsunday holiday weekend in Paris, the prop men were unable to find any whipped cream to use in the Barber's shaving mug. Baritone Robert Merrill experimented with a gooey mixture of sour cream and beaten egg whites, finally, in keeping with the stage directions, had to smear Basso Fernando Corena's face and mouth with the fluffy filling from French cream puffs...
...principle on the awarding of a similar "all-but-dissertation" degree, jokingly called the A.B.D. and more formally termed the Certificate of Candidacy, pending agreement on a more apt name. The aim, says Northwestern Graduate Dean Robert Baker, is to "impress the educational world with the validity of this stage of training." The Graduate Council at the University of California's Berkeley campus is studying a faculty recommendation to offer a similar degree to be called a Doctor of Arts...
...whites-four times as high for teen-agers-is that Negroes, conditioned to a life of rebuffs, do not realize how many jobs have opened up to them. The latest way of getting the message across, and bringing labor-short employers together with job seekers, is for cities to stage "job fairs." Businessmen have sponsored various kinds of job fairs in Chicago, Seattle, New York and, perhaps the best-organized and most successful of all, San Francisco...