Word: apollos
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...Rifles who had risen against them. Tanganyika's President Julius Nyerere took the most direct approach: he announced that both battalions of his Tanganyika Rifles would be disbanded and the aberrant askaris replaced by members of his party's militant Youth Wing. Uganda's Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote arrested 20 ringleaders, then loaded 500 more Uganda Rifles aboard buses, had them dropped off in the back country to make their way-hopefully in disgrace-back to their home villages...
...Nile some 50 miles east of the Kampala capital, two companies of the Uganda Rifles followed the example set by their former brothers-in-arms. They locked up their British officers and demanded a pay hike similar to that which the Tanganyikan troops had asked for. When Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote sent his Internal Affairs Minister to negotiate, they arrested him as well. But Obote had learned from Nyerere's experience. He sent police to secure the Owen Falls dam and thus cut the main highway from Jinja to Kampala. Then, swallowing his pride...
...Glenn explained at a conference, his knowledge from the three-orbit flight of Friendship 7 had long since been assimilated into the space program. Also, by the time the U.S. is ready to launch the Apollo man-on-the-moon shot, Glenn, now 42, will be "near 50-not very old for most occupations, but on the edge of doubt for astronauts." Glenn therefore decided to run for the Senate because "this is an area in which I have had a lifelong interest. I feel that it provides the best opportunity to make use of the experience I have gained...
Such problems have long since been solved by science fictioneers, but not in real life. But the Hamilton Standard division of United Aircraft has come as close as anyone. Designed for use by astronauts of the Apollo moon project, Hamilton Standard's space suit is made of several layers of rubber-impregnated fabric interlaced with ducts and supporting wires. Put in a vacuum chamber for testing with no one inside it, the suit was "flown" up to simulated altitudes as high as 130,000 ft. It stiffened and swelled, its arms spread outward like a gorilla...
...next tests will take place in a new vacuum chamber that can duplicate both the cold of space and the merciless heat of the unshielded sun. If the suit survives those trials, it will be ready for Apollo...