Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biggest failure of the week was the Air Force's attempted firing of its 5,500-mile ICBM Titan. For the U.S.'s potentially most lethal ICBM, it was the first test for the full two-stage assembly. But the missile never left the ground, disintegrated in an explosion on the launching...
...week's failures and semifailures obscured the overall record of U.S. rocketry to date. Totting up the figures, the U.S. could feel satisfied with results-though the figures were not quite so impressive as they sounded; e.g., a launch planned only to test a rocket's first stage, and which travels only half the full distance, is scored a "success" because it accomplishes all that it was expected to. The record, including satellite launches...
...world was young . . ." Whatever the tempo, Tin-Pan or torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence of rapt attention. The clink of glasses stops, the convivial chatter dies and, for a little while, Greenwich Village's Bon Soir nightclub belongs...
...dark, curly-cropped singer, that was the ultimate compliment. Yet the veteran of the small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...
...Zionist and longtime student of the Nazi victim-he wrote a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank that was never produced-Author Levin has evidently done thorough research on what happened after the Gestapo's fateful knock on hideaway doors. He has also covered civilian life as the enemy dourly lived it. In his attempt to follow up the actual Anne...