Word: cooperate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that lay a plain but wondrous fact: if a pair of monkeys, subject to the same physical stresses as man, could return safely from space, so could man. The first human to break the chains of the planet might be named Glenn or Carpenter or Schirra or Shepard or Cooper or Grissom or Slayton. These were the U.S. Astronauts, one of them to be selected as their nation's first space traveler. But whoever the man who returns from space, the way had been broken for him by a monkey named Able and another called Baker...
...with the hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...
...rich thickness (12 sections, 5 lbs.) of last Sunday's New York Times, folded between the polite Book Review and the dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...
...Times's Section 10 was a paid ad ($52,000) for Columbia's yet-to-be-released epic, They Came to Cordura, starring Cooper, Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. It was eloquent testimony to Columbia's big bet on Cordura-$250,000 for the book (about "Black Jack" Pershing's punitive expedition against Pancho Villa), $4,500,000 for the production. As for the Sunday Times, it might never completely recover its customary dignity after the headline on the Hayworth article: Sex Goddess Goes Straight. But Columbia feels the ad will "raise the stature...
Furthermore, Cooper had an answer for Steelworkers Union President David Mc Donald's claim that a wage hike carved out of profits or dividends would add new purchasing power to the economy. The stockholders, said Cooper, need the money worse than the workers. He cited a 1953 survey which showed that 53% of U.S. Steel individual stockholders had an average annual income from all sources that was actually less than the average annual income of the Steelworkers...