Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marianne Purdy plays the wonderful worldly-wise French head-mistress with charm, coyly leads millionaire Percival Browne (David Pursley) about the stage with a wave of her fan. Mr. Pursley's Percival is British to the hilt, dry and witty and essentially comic, and in some scenes it's a wonder he can keep a straight face...
...Cape Canaveral, Fla., last night an attempt to put two Vanguard satellites into orbit on a single launching vehicle failed when the second stage failed to ignite...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--America's second Discoverer satellite roared southward into polar orbit yesterday, setting the stage for a sigantic game of aerial catch in which planes may try to snatch its parachuting nose cone from...
...with a 16⅔% wage increase anyway. Fortnight ago Vallejo demanded the same raise plus fringe benefits for the 5,000 workers on the Mexico City-Veracruz line and the 8,000 on the Nogales-Guadalajara run. He pulled them out and ordered 60,000 other railroadmen to stage a series of one-hour sympathy shutdowns...
...Second Stage. Unterberg, Towbin has had previous successes. In 1955 it engineered a Diners' Club stock issue that no one else wanted, brought it out at $8 a share. Current value: the equivalent of $86 a share. The two-man team handled Marquardt Aircraft Co. in 1952 at $15 a share; it is now worth $280 (counting stock dividends). While most of Unterberg, Towbin's companies are scientific or technical, it is not a venture capital firm in the sense that it sponsors new inventions. "We get in on the second stage," says Partner Clarence E. ("Dutch") Unterberg...