Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From outside as well as inside, the problems crowd in. One day recently Schriever's intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor misfired in Florida, rose 100 ft. and settled gently to its launching pad, where it cracked as it toppled over. The Army, which had test-fired a version of its Jupiter IRBM, was soon crowing bitterly that Thor was nothing but a no-good IPBM-interpad ballistic missile-and won a point in the bitter new interservice war (TIME, June...
That was the story as the UNEF's commander, Canada's Major General E. L. M. Burns, pieced it together later. But that day the inflammatory Cairo press fanned up its own version. "Troops of the UNEF opened fire on Moushref when he emerged from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces...
...Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella-into the glittering color spectacular CBS promises to deliver live to the TV audience on Sunday, March 31, from...
...executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...
Financially, American imitators are doing better than such authentic calypso singers as the Duke of Iron, or Lord Flea and His Calypsonians (Lord Fish Ray, Count Spoon, et a/.), whose cleaned-up version of the nocturnal wanderings of a flea (The Naughty Little Flea; Capitol) is also a nightclub favorite. All told, calypso records account for roughly a quarter of current pop sales...