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...Missouri's Boiling was doing some marshaling, too. A hard-thinking strategist and Rayburn's straw-boss member of the Rules Committee, Boiling had started preparing for the battle months ahead of time. He had saved up as ammunition all the lOUs that he had collected last autumn for helping Democratic House candidates while he was serving as the Kennedy-picked chairman of the committee to coordinate congressional and presidential campaigns. Making use of the detailed information in a fellow liberal's elaborate card file on Democratic Congressmen, Boiling exerted on each waverer the particular kind...
...mechanics took the diesel off its base and tried to weld the crack. Part way through the job, the welding torch ran out of oxygen. Now Vostok was really in peril. Its only hope was a cylinder of oxygen dropped from an airplane the previous autumn. It had broken loose from its parachute and plunged into deep snow. Efforts to find it were abandoned, but the area where it fell-more than a mile from the station-had been carefully marked...
...worst autumn blizzard on record swept up the Eastern seaboard yesterday and clogged Boston with over a foot of snow...
...autumn of 1958, the U.S. exploded three rocket-launched nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic. Purpose of the explosions, known as Project Argus, was to test the theory that charged particles released by the blasts would be trapped in the earth's magnetic field like the sun-borne particles of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, March 30, 1959). The experiment worked fine, but when the New York Times finally broke the story six months later, U.S. authorities were disturbed at the "breach of security" involved. And even after most details of Project Argus became public knowledge...
...happen often enough to keep doctors seriously worried In 1958, the U.S. Air Force announced that 3,222 of its men had been disabled or killed in sports activities during a single year.* Says Harvard University's Dr. Thomas B. Quigley: "Whenever young men gather regularly on green autumn fields, on winter ice, or polished wooden floors to dispute the possession and position of various leather and rubber objects, according to certain rules, sooner or later somebody gets hurt." Last week in Washington, D.C., 100 doctors met for the American Medical Association's second National Conference...