Word: padding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio signals connected it with the ground. As soon as it left the pad, it was on its own, depending on the guidance of its built-in brain and senses. The test was a first-try marvel: the Atlas hit within two miles of a target 5,000 miles down range...
...even soap opera, when the heroine tries suicide for love of a married man. It has moments of sharp, watercooler burlesque as it glances at an office Christmas party. But beyond that, unfolding the story of a nice little guy whose bosse's use his apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying...
...Connection. Playwright Jack Gelber makes a devastating assault on theatrical illusion, presents a pad full of junkies in a formless, utterly naturalistic play that has sporadic distinction...
...lives with his ever-loving mother and writes nothing novels, sees something sweet where the beat meet to eat. In the book she is a pretty Negro, but in the film she is Leslie Caron. "I want every bit of life," he announces. So they go to her pad and really make the scene, and in the morning he drives her over to see her analyst. Soon they are sharing the same toothbrush, but he wants to write, and one night he flobs off to somebody else's pad. She flips but good, and goes ankling down the main...
...Texas' Omar Burleson, an ex-FBI agent and chairman of the purse-string Committee on House Administration, bought $86.45 worth of doodads (pen set, calendar-pad holder, etc.) for his office in Abilene, charged it off to his committee, even though he had received a specific $1,200 allowance for office supplies. On another occasion, Burleson traveled 1,128 miles by car to investigate "election matters" in Texas (his own district included), charged the trip off at 10? a mile...