Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three minutes of power, the X-15's fuel burned out. The plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
...might have been the Winter Garden in 1935. The girls drifted languidly down an outsized ramp while the music came pumping out of the pit like an echo from a Ziegfeld revue. A couple whisked onstage to do a comic turn, punctuated with the oddly archaic slang of the hepcat: "Hey, baby! Let's have a ball!" Occasion : the Manhattan opening of Japan's all-girl Takarazuka Dance Theater, an amalgam of the Folies-Bergere, the Radio City Rockettes, and native Kabuki styles...
...military exercise known as Bo Odori, in which sticks, sickles and wooden swords were flourished in ritualistic confusion, the dance had an authentic feel. But more often, Takarazuka's "musical bridge" seemed a one-way street that fell 20 years short of its goal. After watching an animal turn called Shan Shan Uma, in which two dancers represented the front and hindquarters of a horse, the New York Daily News's John Chapman commented: "I kept muttering to myself 'Shan Shan Uma on the Rillera.' This helped some...
Rather than see their children marked as second-rate material, many middle-class parents rush to the prestigious public schools (costing up to one-third of their incomes). In turn, standards in the secondary modern schools are falling, which makes it even tougher on the children of less prosperous parents. Noted the London Times recently: "A mood of disquiet, and even of neurosis, runs wide and deep across the country...
Stevens confidently expects to turn a profit on Property. "There's been a firm connection between writing and money in my head," says he, "ever since I was ten and my father* paid me a penny a line for learning Shakespeare...