Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always interesting to see how the ghost scenes in Shakespeare are played. De Grazia has Fletcher Word, a black actor, play the Ghost from atop a platform. Word dressed entirely in black, moves with a mime's precision through Oriental poses, enshrouded always in a huge cape. The effect is very striking...
...apparently designed for at least one of three alternative missions: 1) a direct landing on the moon by two cosmonauts, 2) the launch of an unmanned lander that would scoop up lunar material and return it to earth, or 3) the launch of major components of a manned orbiting platform. But the accident delayed further tests of the rocket. The lofting of three manned Soyuz shots last month, for example, apparently fell short of its goal. Two of the craft were equipped with docking collars, but failed to link up. Why? According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, a major component...
...finally sat down and glanced at the stage. There, on the same platform that has been the launching pad for hundreds of dry, Karl Deutschean pearls (sailing through both ears of thousands of sleeping Gov 1 students), was a mass of wriggling bodies. The whole stage looked like a Life photo of the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Gallon bottles of white wine and scores of joints passed through tangles of arms and legs and, by all means, heads...
...rally in San Francisco was also the biggest demonstration in that city's history. At the end of the sevenmile march from Pier 29 to Golden Gate Park, some 125,000 people had assembled. The day was entirely peaceful, though some of the talk coming from the platform was wild. The most extreme statements came from David Milliard, a Black Panther leader who spouted obscenities and declared: "We will kill Richard Nixon! We will kill any mother ?? that stands in the way of our freedom!" This was too much for his listeners, who shouted him down with cries...
...clouds. Astronauts Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean had been bathed in a sudden, brilliant flash. Immediately, red and yellow warning lights began blinking on the command module's instrument panels. All three fuel cells had stopped working; alternating-current circuits were dead, and the electrically operated gyroscopic platform that allows the astronauts to measure their attitude and velocity was tumbling out of control. There had been a massive power failure...