Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...finale is awkward. Menelaus has been losing out to rival Trojan fisheries ever since his wife was involved in a scandal for corrupting the morals of a minor (Paris). The Trojan War offers an easy way out for everyone: Helen gets her lover, Menelaus his market, Achilles his promotion stunt. . . . But Segal, somehow, doesn't get the scene which would logically conclude the show...
...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...