Good morning.
Our week will start with sunny skies, a high of sixty-nine, and calm winds.
On this day in 1965, a space-faring first (for an American), as the New York Times reported the next day:
For 20 minutes yesterday afternoon Maj. Edward H. White 2d of the Air Force was a human satellite of the earth as he floated across North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Tethered to the Gemini 4 spacecraft, he chatted good-humoredly and snapped pictures as he darted about in raw space with a the aid of a gas-firing jet gun. Asked how he was doing by Maj. James A. McDivitt of the Air Force, the spaceship commander, Major White replied to his partner in the capsule:
“I’m doing great. This is fun.”
Puzzablity has a new weekly theme for June 3-7: “For each day this week, we’ll give you as a clue a review we wrote of a Tony-winning Best Play. Remove any spaces and punctuation, then delete exactly half of the letters from anywhere in the clue to reveal, reading the remaining letters in order, the title of the play. (You’ll need to add spaces for your final answer.)”
Example:
A HUGE BUST ONSTAGE, ACTED WITHOUT SANITY!
Answer:
August: Osage County
Here’s June 3rd’s puzzle:
DRAMA AND GENIUS!