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...COMPANY, directed by Ellis Rabb, offers dramatic works for practically every taste this season in its repertory: War and Peace, The Wild Duck, Right You Are if Yon Think You Arc and You Can't Take It with...
Komarov may have had a premonition of his fate. Shortly before the veteran cosmonaut entered the spacecraft, Stevens says, he handed Soviet Reporter Sergei Borzenko the book he had been reading-a biography of Joan of Arc. In a section describing the Maid of Orleans' burning at the stake, Borzenko noticed later, Komarov had underlined the following passage: "She bade her farewells and continued gazing at the clear blue sky until the final second when the black smoke blotted out that sky forever...
...board's conclusion that faulty wiring probably caused the fire. Pressed for alternatives, he blurted: "It has been theorized that Grissom could have kicked the wire that would have been attached to the gas chronometer." That would have caused an abrasion in the insulation and made possible the arc that ignited the blaze. When New York Democrat William Fitts Ryan angrily disputed that suggestion, McCarthy retreated. "I only brought it up as a hypothesis," he said...
...Harvard Association of Planners, according to the part of the constitution adopted yesterday, will include as members all city planning students and faculty who want to belong. Among the association's goals arc to open a student-faculty dialogue; to focus student opinion; and to "provide a constructive and cooperative atmosphere" for planning at Harvard...
...good humor. He even joked about the danger. "The dean of Howard told me to be careful. He said it would sound like hell if they had to name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through...