Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulfilled was the Air Force's prayerful hope: Thor, at long last, had been successfully fired. A special top-level Defense Department committee, set up to settle the rivalry between Thor and its Army counterpart, Jupiter, was pondering whether to scrap one of the two intermediate-range (1,500-mile) ground-to-ground ballistic missiles or combine them in a hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third...
...devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera very much, but opera does not like me"). His imagination seemed to flag. He published his last works in 1929, retired to Lake Tuusula as one of the venerated elder statesmen of symphonic music...
...success of both series is due largely to Producer Bob Graff, 37, an ex-U.P. reporter who helped put together the award-winning Assignment: India and has worked on the Wisdom series for three years. Graff credits Pat Weaver, sometime president of NBC, with the original idea ("Wouldn't it be great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn...
...SHOW" PROBLEM is being whipped by U.S. airlines, which last year lost $10 million on people who made reservations but missed flights. Lines report substantial success with new rules that tickets must be picked up in advance and return reservations must be reconfirmed at least six hours before trip. Now lines will start fining no-shows $3 each...
...long chronicle of success seems nourished still by the selfish vitality of the black-bearded boatman. In the end even the friendly painter of this purple-tinted prose portrait almost admits that Richard King was, after all, a magnificent old s.o.b. "The ranch on the Santa Gertrudis could not have been wrested from the Wild Horse Desert by a courtly display of pleasant intention," says Author Tom Lea. "It was rough. It was no less honorable. It demanded a rough and honorable...