Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only that. These astronauts, you may remember, have been raking it in from Life magazine (you know, "My Own Story: How It Feels to Shake a President's Hand But Seriously Though It's Really An Awful Great Thrill"). This money, it now appears, will construct Cape Canaveral's newest motel. Sole owners and coupon clippers: John Glenn, five more, and palpitating old Donald Slayton...
...This is a new ocean," said President Kennedy, ''and I believe that the U.S. must sail on it." The President, still tingling from a day of thrill and suspense shared by the nation and the world, was paying tribute to Lieut. Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr., 40, the freshly commissioned admiral of that new ocean. As the focus of a mighty team effort involving a host of fiercely dedicated men, vast technological skills and millions of dollars of the national wealth. John Glenn accomplished on his flight through the heavens?which he laconically called a "successful outing"?far more...
...their headgear-fezzes. derbies, top hats, brightly chromed World War II helmets -and far-out chatter: "Man, look at that screamer. Like that's sudden iron."* But the 300 drivers who competed for the coveted title of ''Top Eliminator" were a long cry from the thrill-crazy "squirrels" who zoom through traffic and terrorize motorists. A few were professional racers; the majority were serious, mechanically inclined young men who belong to the National Hot Rod Association and test their creations in a relatively sane manner. They pay scrupulous attention to traffic laws (a ticket may mean suspension...
...aimed at whipping up enthusiasm for his threatened invasion of Nether lands New Guinea, Indonesia's President Sukarno took along a star-studded cast: ten admiring foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.'s Howard Palfrey Jones, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, a brigade of local beauties. As an unexpected thrill for the crowds along the way, there was even an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
...required information is readily available in this competent, medium-budget version of a trilogy published in 1874 by Jules Verne. It should thrill the gee-whillickers out of anybody willing to settle for a gasbag in a rocket...