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Technically, the movie causes curiosity about how the Reds ever got Sputnik off the launching pad. Filmed with three different cameras simultaneously, the images are separated on the wide screen by blurry stripes from top to bottom. The sound track is unpleasantly thunderous, and the Soviet scriptwriters have produced a painful brand of Americanese, delivered through stereophonic loudspeakers located south by southeast of the viewer's ear. Horrible example: "Gee. I'd like to fly on a TU-1O4," says the lady narrator. Reply from the Russian guide (south by southwest): "I think it's just...
...Communists insisted they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress leader, R. Sankaran: "We are prepared to discuss with the Communist government nothing but details of its resignation...
...since departed for Kansas City), glare across the scrubby, rattlesnake-infested foothills toward the San Fernando Valley. As the Thunderbird flies, the place is 12 smoggy miles from the manicured canyons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, where a movie star ought to live. By classical Hollywood standards, this pad is so far out that it might as well be in Oshkosh or Altoona or on a space platform, and the girl who lives there is even farther out-she is a real ring-a-ding...
...Jupiter take-off from Cape Canaveral last week was routine. The fat, 60-ft. IRBM rose from its pad, climbed through thin clouds, curved toward the southeast and vanished among the stars. No one was surprised; of the 20 Army Jupiters fired so far, only one has failed...
...rooms atop the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building; in Manhattan, his home is a Park Avenue apartment minutes away from the corporate policymaking headquarters. He often starts his day at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. sitting quietly in his den or kitchen working out corporate problems on a yellow pad of legal paper, and his workday rarely ends before 7 or 8. His free time is generally spent with his wife in a sprawling Victorian house in Hawley, Pa.; it is her family home and they were married there, have never given it up. He likes trout fishing, golf (with...