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...heroes, it was as much for his offhanded casualness as for the feat itself. With the world following his every move, White stepped out of orbiting Gemini 4 at the end of a 24-ft. tether, strolled in space for a spell, then matter-of-factly informed Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's fun. I'm not coming in." At one point, McDivitt protested: "Hey, you smeared my window you dirty dog." Replied the floating White: "Yep." He finally returned to the capsule after a 20-minute stroll- during which he maneuvered far more freely than Soviet Cosmonaut...
...ALTON A. MCDONALD Judge Court of Common Pleas Cambria County Ebensburg...
BONNIE RYAN Alton...
After more than 13 years on Death Row-the longest such period in U.S. history-two convicted Negro rapists were ordered freed last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The court ruled that Edgar Labat, 43, and Clifton Alton Poret, 37, had been denied fair trial by the all-white jury system of Orleans Parish (then 32% Negro), which had never allowed a single Negro to serve on a criminal jury...
Author William J. Lederer was invited to the platform by Alton B. Fry, a visiting member of the Center for International Studies, to answer a question about a mass exodus of North Vietnamese to the South. This movement, Lederer said, is often used to support the Administration policy. But actually some priests told North Vietnamese Catholics that Jesus and Mary now lived in South Vietnam, and the people believed...