Word: missing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sokolniki Park in the summer of 1959; his Gallup poll soared on his return from Moscow-after which, predictably, it dropped. Almost as clear is the image of a man inextricably identified with Eisenhower's foreign policy-a picture which caused Nixon's friends to miss a few heartbeats in the post-summit days when the story unfolded of the Administration's bumbling on the U-2 spy plane episode. "If Ike flubs foreign policy, Nixon goes down," said a top Republican. With this in mind, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was standing by, just...
Backing down, the Russians have revised their original claim that the plane was hit and destroyed by a high-altitude rocket. Now the party line, as told to Gorky Park visitors, is that the rocket scored a near miss, that the damaged plane began to "disintegrate" as it fell. But in revising the original lie. the Russians bumbled into another one. To explain why the crash did not shatter the plane into small fragments, they said that the U-2 was largely built of unusually lightweight metal (i.e., titanium), and therefore did not fall so very hard. Fact...
...just right, and after the Great Crash he gradually faded into comparative obscurity. Into his last years, though he was sick and nearly blind, he retained his zest for life. At 80, asked the inevitable questions put to famous octogenarians, he said that he had only one regret: "I miss seeing the new beauties...
...Leontyne Price, the climb to La Scala's stage seemed remarkably easy. She started her musical career playing the piano at funerals at home in Laurel, Miss., where her father was a sawmill laborer and her mother a midwife who "delivered more babies than necessary so I could have piano lessons." At Central State College in Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess...
...Miss-hap. In Kampala, Uganda, the country's first "Miss Uganda" contest ended somewhat unhappily when one of the contestants had a miscarriage...