Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...
...visit to the United States is ended, and the usual second guesses on whether he should have been invited and whether he was handled properly will no doubt be aired for a considerable time. It appears now that Khrushchev's trip resulted in neither a fiasco nor an unqualified triumph for either party. The Premier's tour was of course bungled, ever so slightly, as it was bound to be; Khrushchev, on the other hand, did not exactly induce any false sense of security with his occasional beligerence and his obvious intransigence on many basic issues...
...This new triumph of Soviet science (see SCIENCE), following almost exactly two years after Sputnik 1, showed that the U.S.S.R. is still ahead of the U.S. in the critical field of space. The U.S.S.R. fired two moon rockets into space, missed once, hit once; the U.S. fired five moon rockets, missed five times. The Soviet success, as such, gave the Soviet Union's Chairman Khrushchev, on the eve of his U.S. visit, perhaps the greatest prestige blast-off of all time...
...Unfinished Business." President Eisenhower, his personal leadership lifted to new highs of confidence by his triumph in Western Europe, was ready in the White House for whatever Khrushchev might bring. "The choice before world leaders is momentous," he said in a 15-minute TV talk to the nation. "It is my profound hope that some real progress will be forthcoming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome. In this connection I know that neither America nor her allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will...
That was before bald, chubby Roberto Rossellini came sprinting into town to turn the festival into a sorely needed personal triumph. His new picture, 77 Generale della Rovere, had been put together in just 33 days of shooting. Director Rossellini himself had seen the finished film only one day before the festival deadline; there was not even time for careful editing. But with money and time running out, Rossellini, whose reputation had been sliding downhill even before he ditched Ingrid Bergman for India's sloe-eyed Sonali Das Gupta, was forced to gamble on an unfinished draft. Despite the long...