Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy gave the full story on what happened to a Vanguard satellite that got lost in the skies on its way to orbit last May. The Vanguard, the Navy explained, was supposed to have climbed to 300-400 miles, then gone into its orbit. Instead, the second-stage engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments...
Stopping Paris traffic with her slim figure and undiminished stage presence. Old-time Operatic Soprano Mary Garden concealed all but the younger half of her 81 years. Stirring from retirement in Aberdeen, the Scots prima donna was reportedly in the city on business: to sign a contract for a motion picture and TV series based on her life. Trilled Mary Garden, who refused a similar proposal from Hollywood producers nearly five years ago: "None of those dumb blondes can play...
Before a man could say "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," there was Ernie wearing a set of tails like the headwaiter at Romanoff's, up there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked...
Three Added Years. All his patients, said Dr. Murray, were "terminal": all had received some of the orthodox treatments (radiation, surgery, hormones) for their types of cancer. Some had had every recognized treatment, and all had reached the stage where their doctors had abandoned further treatment as hopeless. In all cases the cancer had spread to many parts of the body...
...drama of the Russian Revolution has usually been annotated by one of the actors, the actors' friends, or the jilted stage-door Johnnies who haunt the theater of history. Blame, guilt, hatred, self-accusation and self-aggrandizement taint most such accounts of revolution. Alan Moorehead's book is different. It is a clear-eyed rendering by an expert reviewer who makes the drama come alive again and establishes some new areas of truth. The ideological burdens the book carries belong to the narrative, not the narrator, and it contains no haunted hindsights...