Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect, caused by the synchronous pulsing of all five first-stage F-1 engines at their natural resonant frequency, produced a vibrational force of three-tenths Gs during the first flight-enough to jar astronauts had they been aboard, but not enough to cause any serious difficulty. On the April shot, however, the Pogo Effect reached a force of seven-tenths of a G, enough vibration so that astronauts would not be able to read instruments or flick control switches...
...rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak since the April 1 reopening of the London gold market...
...FRIDAY, APRIL 26 -- I wake up at 8:55 and run to the crew bus and leave for MIT. In Cambridge I call home. My mother asks me, "Are you on the side of the law-breakers in this thing?" For ten minutes we exchange mother talk and revolutionary rhetoric. She points out that neither Ghandi nor Thoreau would have asked for amnesty. I admit I haven't read them. But Ghandi had no Ghandi to read and Thoreau hadn't read Thoreau. They had to reach their own conclusions and so will...
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 -- I row a boat race and split. On the MTA to Logan a middle-aged man starts winking and smiling and gesticulating at my right lapel. Looking down, I see that I am wearing a broken rifle pin, symbol of the War Resisters' League. I tell him that it so happens I am on my way back to Columbia right now to carry on a Revolution. He thinks that's fine...
...SUNDAY, APRIL 28 -- Four hours of meetings about tactical matters, politics, and reports from Strike Central. I begin to long for a benevolent dictator. It is announced that we are spending as much money on cigarettes as food. I wonder as I look about me whether Lenin was as concerned with the breast size of his revolutionary cohorts as I am. It is now daylight savings time; under all the clocks are signs saying "it's later than you think...