Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the Rivets. To Colonel Stapp, that hair-raising sleigh ride will be another day of body-jarring work in a career that has made him the No. 1 hero of Air Force men. Last year, riding an earlier version of the Sonic Wind, he reached a speed of 632 m.p.h., faster than the flight of a .45-cal. bullet, far faster than any earthbound man had ever traveled before. At the end of the run the sled went down from 632 m.p.h. to a dead stop in 1.4 seconds. As the sled decelerated, Colonel Stapp was subjected to more...
...Ride with Godiva. Busy as ever at Holloman, Bachelor Stapp still manages to lead his private version of the good life. He has bought a three-bedroom home at 300 Lovers Lane in nearby Alamogordo, where he lives alone and lumps it. He refuses to own a television set ("I am not ready for intellectual suicide"). His principal indulgence is some excellent hi-fi equipment...
...auto industry virtually assured itself of three years of labor peace last week. After a quickie (six hours) walkout, Chrysler signed the standard three-year contract with the U.A.W. embodying the Reuther version of the guaranteed annual wage. Like Ford and G.M. before it, Chrysler agreed to establish a fund to guarantee its 139,000 employees 65% of their regular pay for 26 weeks. It also promised minor raises for increases in efficiency and the higher cost of living. Cost to Chrysler: an estimated 20? an hour per employee, about the same as at Ford...
With a blare of trumpets, a glitter of sequins and an outburst of romantic candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot...
...lined up more Spectaculars (some 75) than ever, and most of them will be in color. On the list: The Skin of Our Teeth, with Mary Martin, Helen Hayes, George Abbott; a musical version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint; Jerome Kern's The Cat and the Fiddle; Dearest Enemy, with a Rodgers and Hart score; a musical based on Heidi with Wally Cox and Jeannie Carson; Patrice Munsel in The Great Waltz; and Maurice Chevalier in a variety show. Straight drama also will get the 90-minute treatment from...