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...into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft to carry man out to the edge of space...
Built by North American Aviation, the 50-ft., 15,000-lb. X-15 is designed to fly at 4,000 m.p.h., reach altitudes of 100 miles or more. But it had never before been tested in free flight. Last week's test had been postponed six times because of bad weather and failures in the X-15's telemetry and electrical systems. Even as the mother plane carried it above the Mojave Desert, groundlings were quoting odds that the X-15, with wings little bigger than a Cadillac tail fin, would "drop like a rock" when released...
...becoming true even if they start out false. My patient Eddy was in a car accident in the last several years. When he saw me soon after the accident, my examination showed he had a mild finger and knee sprain, but no bruising or swelling. All of his x-rays and MRI's were essentially normal. Eddy walked with a ridiculously fake limp and a cane, when he remembered...
...featuring previously unseen footage of Warhol in his studio in 1962. Also this fall Sienna Miller will star in a biopic of Edie Sedgwick set in 1965, the year she became known as Warhol's muse. And taking inspiration from his work, Levi's just launched a Warhol Factory X line of ultrapremium jeans, tops and jackets at Barneys and Fred Segal. "Andy's probably clapping his hands somewhere," says photographer David McCabe, who followed Warhol around for an entire year circa 1964. "This is exactly what he planned. He was very calculated...
...play’s reach should exceed its grasp, then director Robert Woodruff’s “Orpheus X,” at the Zero Arrow Theatre, playing through April 23, is a triumph. Told in words, music, writing, song, projected images, and one climactic, devastating silence, the operatic play is hugely ambitious and completely unique. It is, however, more interesting than it is entertaining, at times overreaching to the point of inaccessibility. Written by and starring Rinde Eckert, “Orpheus X,” an American Repertory world premiere, updates the well-known myth...