Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision of the new command was to cut the show back from two hours to roughly 90 minutes and to forgo, most weeks, the magazine format. Generally, each future broadcast will have a single theme (this Sunday's: a study of whites' reaction to integration). There will be no more of what Westin calls "instant topicality." Westin is now producing background programs on issues that he anticipates will again become crucial-the crisis on the campuses and the power of the military-industrial complex, for example. When finished, the shows will go into a bank to await...
...earth. About 57 hours later, accelerating under the pull of terrestrial gravity, the astronauts will position their craft properly and then jettison the service module. Streaking into the earth's atmosphere at an angle of 6.5° and a velocity of 24,765 m.p.h., the 11,700-lb. command module-all that will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days...
There are other moon flight worries, most of them centered around the functioning of the Apollo command module's SPS engine. Should the SPS fail to ignite, or should it burn for less than 80 sec. during the attempt to place Apollo in lunar orbit, there would be little difficulty; the spacecraft would simply continue around the moon and be whipped back toward the earth and safety. But if the SPS should fail between the 80-and 110-sec. marks of its scheduled 246-sec. burn, Apollo would enter what NASA euphemistically describes as an "unstable orbit." After rounding...
Sexless in Paradise. Oriana stays in command during an interview; she has the first word and the last. After complaining to Oriana that she could never find a man strong enough to dominate her, Actress Anna Magnani finally asked, "Tell me, what do you really think of me?" Replied Oriana: "I think-I think you're a great man, Signora Magnani." When she caught Hugh Hefner in flagrant hypocrisy, Oriana remarked, "Here the donkey falls...
...Circus is a foretaste of what is to come in Las Vegas. Owners are finding that, though gross gambling revenues are still growing (up 14.3% last year), their profits are being cut by what Sarno calls "the spiraling cost of customer attraction." A top entertainer like Frank Sinatra can command $100,000 a week; a production of Fiddler on the Roof costs $70,000 a week...