Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veteran Test Pilot Robert M. Stanley of the Stanley Aviation Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must...
...sort, plus rocket propulsion so that the crew can choose a reasonably favorable part of the earth to land on. Except for trying to hit Kansas instead of Antarctica, the crew should be able to leave everything else to automatic devicing. "About all that is expected of them." said Stanley, "is that they return to earth alive and express with eloquence their reactions to space flight...
...Defiant Ones. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, as escaped convicts bound by a length of chain, in Stanley Kramer's biting argument for brotherhood...
Another major problem facing the new committee is the composition of tutorial groups. Stanley H. Hoffman, head tutor in the Government Department, said that that department has "informally changed" its organization of tutorial...
...Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando's mother (there is no such part) in Brando's new picture, One-Eyed Jacks. Garbo, so the Bird's story goes, answered...