Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians do indeed plan to steal the limelight from Apollo 8, their best opportunity for launching a manned circumlunar shot will occur during a brief period beginning around the first week in December. At that time, a spacecraft could be launched in daylight, streak around the moon, and return for a landing in Russia or the Indian Ocean during daylight hours, when it is easier to locate and reach the downed craft. The mission almost certainly will follow closely the trail of Zond-5 and Zond-6, the first craft to circle the moon and return safely to earth...
Like the ugly men, the other nice things about this picture are also strange. In its slick color photography, advertising campaign, title and plot, Hot Millions gives the appearance of being yet another film of the glamorous grand robbery mode (Charade, How to Steal a Million, Gambit, et al). But, for all these superficial indications, this movie has little to do with beautiful people or even money. Not only that, but it's a suspense film with little suspense; a comedy with few big laughs; a love story with no flesh. And Hot Millions characters are the kind of people...
Needless of say, all is not happiness. There is Willard K. Knatpole, who tries to uncover Ustinov's illegal schemes and steal his woman at the same time. Bob Newhart plays the part, and, believe it or not, he's funny. Oozing nauseating lechery out of his beady eyes, he makes his rotten ugliness a splendid contrast with Ustinov's lovable ugliness...
...Steal flares from the construction site?: Several times in life you are asked to make congnitive decisions that are obviously going to determine your future identity. Stealing the flares would be the social lever that would get you in with the generally more adventuresome, definant, virlle boys -- the jocks. (Being a jock is a state of mind rather than a guage of atheletic ability.) Too chicken to take any flares, you fall into the "non-entities" who have no clique and who consequently consume their time by reading which they have been told to do. As it happens, the importance...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...