Word: swiftness
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...minutes Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov drifted and spun through dreamlike gyrations while he followed the spaceship Voskhod II in its swift, elliptical path around the distant earth. Then, as easily and efficiently as he had emerged from his ship, Leonov climbed back inside. After 15 more orbits, he and his comrade, Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, began the long flight home...
...seemed to be simmering down, a handful of cause-hunting students and some off-campus beatniks suddenly began shouting obscene words into a public-address system at Sproul Hall and displaying them on signs. The reaction of Berkeley police against what quickly got dubbed the "filthy speech movement" was swift: nine demonstrators were arrested (six turned out not to be registered students...
Director David Thimar is once again responsible for giving the Rudding how its particular style of life. Working with a diffused and he has molded his large cast into a brightly moving melange, which, except for a lapse after maintains a remarkably swift pace. Under his direction the Puddies handle a range of moves and dances with surprising assuredness. And his choreography and blocking reflect the touch of a professional (which indeed...
...exporters, reorganization of the dock industry and, in some cases, like steel, immediate nationalization. To eliminate the deficit, Lord Cromer warned last week, Britain must revitalize her entire economy. The three billion dollar rescue that saved the pound in November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presages swift victory...
...where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...