Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...voices were fresh, but the dialogues themselves were as old as men. All, that is, except one. It came from a 94.8-lb. paddle-wheeled ball that last week rose from the surface of the earth and vaulted through space. The destiny of Pioneer V lay in the unknown void-as far as 186 million miles away-in a 527 million-mile sun-circling orbit between the earth and Venus (see SCIENCE). And of all the machinery thrown into the heavens since the space age began only 29 months ago, Pioneer V alone has a voice that will thunder through...
Hussein's response to this diplomatic slight was to send the consul packing. Nasser's next move was to propose that the Arabs re-create an entity called Palestine, with its own army. What is left to the Arabs of what used to be Palestine, except for the Gaza Strip wedge that Nasser controls, has been absorbed into Jordan, adding an educated and restless population to what used to be a desert kingdom...
More surprising but less illuminating were some random facts: most pedestrian deaths occurred on straight streets with no unusual obstructions, and in good weather (though in rain and poor visibility, the toll increased). Except for the Bowery, heavily congested business districts had fewer fatalities than residential areas with lighter traffic...
...scarcely skirts the standard pitfall of the comedy of errors: i.e., as the errors multiply, the comedy divides and dwindles. But Lady's trio of nimble headliners foot the measures of Producer-Writer Norman Krasna's so-so script trippingly. Dean Martin neatly blends tomfoolery and tomcattery. Except for the initial spat, real life Husband-and-Wife Team Curtis and Leigh nibble at each other as voraciously as if they were hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find the decor irritatingly...
...hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...