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...Chance They Took. In fact, none of those explanations really described the meaning of the march. It was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained suspense of an astronaut shoot or a national political convention-but it built, despite moments of boredom and restlessness-to an emotion-draining climax. It probably changed few minds that had already been made up; the chances were that integrationists would remain integrationists and segregationists would remain segregationists. It was in the probable effects on the conscience of millions of previously indifferent Americans that the march might...
Though what Cooper saw in the green veil was no surprise to scientists, the astronaut did manage to jolt them with another discovery. As he passed over South America, Cooper caught a glimpse of a thin, barely visible rust-colored layer roughly 70 miles higher than the green stratum he had been searching for. His sighting confirmed an earlier report by Astronaut Wally Schirra, and scientists now suspect the green veil may be topped by a red one made up of photochemically stimulated atomic oxygen...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).* Mystery of an American astronaut who loses contact with ground control for six hours while in orbit and finds things strangely unfamiliar when he returns. Repeat...
...this talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...
...Many scientists doubt Astronaut Gordon Cooper's report of seeing trucks on the road and smoke coming out of chimneys in Tibet. According to Dr. W. R. Adey of U.C.L.A., this is equivalent to seeing objects 1 in. in diameter 4,000 ft. away. He thinks Cooper had disorders of vision or judgment...