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...crew survived, but T.D. ("Doug") Benefield, 55, the chief test pilot for Rockwell International Corp., which builds the B1, died. Benefield, a 29-year veteran of skirting the outer edge, had a cigar-chomping confidence that put him in the Right Stuff league with Chuck Yeager. The prototype, known as the B-1 A, was one of four built and one of two still flying...
Though best known to the American public as Chuck Yeager, Sam Shepard has spent most of his time for the past twenty years not as an astronaut, nor as an actor, but as a playwright. And it was as a playwright that Shepard came to Boston last month to stage a production on the Loeb mainstage with Shepard's friend and collaborator avante garde director Joseph Chaikin...
Though he has acted in movies before (such as portraying the farmer in the poignant but relatively unknown film Days of Heaven, Shepard came into the public eye when he played Chuck Yeager in the film rendition of the Tom Wolfe novel, The Right Stuff. Shepard explains why he accepted the role despite his disillusionment with Hollywood: his father was a pilot in the airforce, and as a friend of director Philip Kaufman, he decided that he wanted to take the part...
...Tharp catches each tradition and turns it into a hilarious joke. With music by Fran, Joseph Hayden and Joseph Lamp and a confident, clever set of dancers. "Push Comes to Shove" was a smashing hit. Tuesday night Danilo Radojevic. Marianna Techerkasky and Susan Jaffe led the ballet although Cheryl Yeager and Clark Tippet each made substantial contributions to the dance's success...
...first Portuguese navigators, for example, took fright at the shallow waters of Cape Bojador in Africa. Yet as soon as one ship had rounded the Cape, these same men dared sail any sea, just as the test pilots in The Right Stuff would fly at any speed after Chuck Yeager broke the once terrifying sound barrier...