Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smash Hit. In Bathurst, Australia, when the touring Vienna Choir Boys struck a high soprano note while singing in the Civic Theater, the ceiling cracked, causing mortar and bricks to -crash on the stage...
...14th of September, at 00:02:24, Moscow time, the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon. It is the first time in history that a cosmic flight has been made from the earth to another celestial body." The Soviet moon rocket, with a last-stage weight of 3,342 Ibs., treated against bacteria so as not to contaminate the surface of the moon, carried red pennants and a hammer-and-sickle emblem inscribed "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...refer work practices and other local issues (TIME, Aug. 24) to labor-management subcommittees in the twelve major struck companies, thus agreeing with the union's stand that these are local problems that should be handled on the local level. "The strike has now reached a critical stage," said Labor Secretary James Mitchell, "and the next few days will determine whether we get a reasonable settlement or whether the strike will be further drawn...
With wide-eyed envy, the first episode of Sweet Success reported the rise of Don Loper, a onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
SMALL-CAR DEAL between American Motors and West Germany's B.M.W. is in the exploratory stage. Ailing B.M.W. (pygmy-sized Isetta, high-priced luxury cars) appears ripe for acquisition; massive purchases by speculators have sent its stock to new highs on Frankfurt exchange...