Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gemini 4 had its failures-a missed rendezvous, a stuck hatch, a computer that malfunctioned - but they were minor compared with its stunning success. Space officials made no effort whatever to conceal their optimism. Minutes after the Gemini 4 capsule splashed down, they flashed this con fident message on TV screens at the Space Center: "End of flight plan-tune in next time...
...Most successful of these authentic singing cafés is Madrid's La Zambra. There the defenders of the cause gather to watch diminutive Rosita Duran, the greatest female flamenco dancer since La Argentinita. La Zambra's success has prompted the opening of a smattering of similar tablaos. But there are still only some two dozen topflight dancers and singers in the country-and 14 million tourists a year to applaud twist flamenco...
Betty Friedan & Co. discount such talk because, they say, it comes from a woman who is not just a housewife but a poet, and who herself discounts housewifery by employing fulltime help. This attitude is slightly tinged with envy. Phyllis McGinley has managed, with stunning success, the very sort of life they advocate-and, what's more, like the Phi Beta Kappa effortlessly producing scholarship, she has made it look easy. From this housewife's mind, in between unstinted domestic chores, have come nine volumes of excellent verse, two books of essays and 15 children's books...
Peter Skolnik's production of A View from the Bridge, the other fall HDC production, was only a limited success. The spring productions were bombs...
...Bond continues his adventures on the movie screen, the budgets of the films steadily climb. The producers were hesitant about investing in Dr. No, but the success of From Russia with Love tempted them to pour millions into the special effects of Goldfinger and even more into the forthcoming Thunderball. The elaborate settings are half the fun of James Bond pictures, and J suspect that their mounting ventures will, like Bond's own, surely...