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...cost to the reactor development program. The purpose was to demonstrate reactor performance. However, the thrust generated by the reactor would be inadequate to sustain flight, and the proposal would contribute little toward the development of a fully nuclear-powered aircraft. In summary, it can be described as a stunt...
...conditions be transferred to a supernational body such as the United Nations," that the training program include "extensive, rigorous training in . . . the Communist menace," and that the applicants undergo an F.B.I. security check. Attached to the statement was a newspaper clipping which called the Peace Corps a "publicity stunt," an "amazingly naive project," and "the children's crusade...
Died. Major Robert S. Fitzgerald, 38, leader of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's stunt-flying team; in a jet crash; not during an acrobatic maneuver but as he flew behind his teammates explaining their routines to a passenger, Captain George A. Nial, 31, who also was killed; at Thunderbird Lake, Nev., a dry lake named for the team...
...occurred to Hefner that he is the Tony Curtis of publishing and he has arranged for Curtis to do the Hugh Hefner story on film. Moving by Cadillac limousine or Mercedes-Benz 300 SL between his office and the house that flesh built, Hefner is actually a living promotion stunt, the most conspicuous playboy of the Middle-Western world...
...Publicity stunt." snorted the gallery manager, Professor Sergio Franciscone. who threatened to sue the artist...