Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite that ghastly record, dirigibles may yet stage a comeback. With modern technology, says Boston University Aeronautical Engineer Francis Morse, they can be made as sturdy and safe as airplanes. Writing in Britain's New Scientist, Morse proposes a nuclear-powered, helium-buoyed craft that would not only restore public confidence in the dirigible but would also compete economically...
...more effective with psychotics and neurotics than we are with freshmen," says Caltech Psychologist John Weir. One of the leaders in cognition psychology, Harvard's Jerome Bruner, has long insisted that "any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development" (yet a recent Harvard Crimson course guide terms Bruner's own classes "incoherent...
Script du Jour. What exactly is going on is a stage secret. The sets are generally closed; the stars are forbidden to discuss their roles and are trusted only with the pages of script in which they appear. Feldman explains that this security is necessary to protect his uproarious ideas from TV or film-by-night pirates. Another explanation is that no one is talking because no one knows what to say: the scenario changes by the second...
This summer, Manhattan's Lincoln Center will stage a revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, the original (1946) Annie. The idea so delights Berlin that he has written two new songs for it and added new lyrics to the anthem of the trade, There's No Business Like Show Business...
...Russia. The trouble with ELDO, aside from the shortage of capital and technological resources in Europe, is that its Europa-I vehicle has the feel of a Rube Goldberg totem pole. The British are to pay for 38.79% of the costs and provide the first stage; the French, 23.93% and the second stage; the Germans, 22.01% and the third stage; the Italians, 9.78% and the payload; the Belgians 2.85% and the downrange guidance station; the Dutch, 2.64% and the telemetry, and Australia makes available the Woomera range. The three stages have yet to be launched together, and the test vehicle...