Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most discouraging of all was the estimate that more than 10,000 separate tasks would have to be performed before the U.S. could put a man on the moon. James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration between 1961 and 1968, compared the problem to "having to take a caterpillar and make it into a butterfly when we had never seen a butterfly...
...rang the doorbell of the five-bedroom, Spanish-style Beverly Hills house, I braced myself for ghosts. The previous owner, Clifton Webb, reputedly never really moved out. Then, too, I half expected the ghost of Hedda Hopper to come at me with a hatpin. Instead I was greeted by Hedda's spiritual [as it were] successor, Joyce Haber, Hollywood's new No. 1 voyeur. I was ushered past an epoxy statue by Frank Gallo of a naked girl [Joyce likes to strip people naked) and a Tony Curtis box made especially for Joyce and featuring an old fashioned...
...record because Saussy wanted to write an opera more complex than an audience could understand in a single live performance. This "phonograph opera" becomes more resonant and eloquent with each replay. The style eludes easy description, except by comparison to MacArthur Park by Saussy's friend Jim Webb (whose influence is evident in The Moth's "Midsummer Night"and "Morning Girl," available out of context as a single). Both composers create serious and elaborate structures by joining an array of classical forms with borrowings from the sentimental popular music written for Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Hollywood romances. This approach...
...MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) takes out after a murderer with a preference for photographic models in World Premiere: Dragnet...
...including the 42 in Saturn 5 and three more in the escape tower that is jettisoned shortly after launch). Any one of those items conceivably could cause trouble. But NASA nonetheless is optimistically planning for success. Says Metallurgist Thomas Paine, who this week replaced retiring NASA Administrator James Webb: "We have put great stress on the ability of the Apollo 9 crew to operate the LM. All subsequent crews will have extensive training in all of the activities required for lunar landing...