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...Apollo 9's orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever sent into orbit. Said Scott: "You're the biggest, friendliest, funniest-looking spider I've ever seen." He was talking to the lunar module, known as Spider, and it bore two other astronauts who had earlier left Scott to guide it through space. By flying their ship through orbital maneuvers designed to simulate those to be used by astronauts returning from the surface of the moon, Astronauts James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart rendezvoused with Apollo 9 and Scott, then docked with...
...Words." It wouldn't have been true that they had the ideas, but certainly Ogden had enough of both. And he created Basic English by interrogating his intelligent friends; he had hundreds of them; he belonged to seven Clubs, at least, and could contrive not to be a club bore...
...rousing rhubarb is often the best part of a ball game. But after weeks of haggling and threats of an all-out strike, the long-winded dispute between the major-league team owners and the Players Association was getting to be a bore. No one was more annoyed than Bowie Kuhn, the newly appointed commissioner of baseball. Last week, as the negotiators were about to call for yet another vote from the 700 members of the association-a process that would have taken at least two more weeks-Kuhn cut short a Florida vacation and flew back to Manhattan...
...ones who had the misery of being slaves in this country. We're the ones who had to be invisible. We're the ones who had to devise different means of staying alive. We did it." But Nina is hardly a whiner. "It's a bore just to be talking about pain per se unless something can come out of it that's constructive. I want an easier life, and I want an easier life for my people and for all people that are oppressed. But before you can have that, the pain and the injustice...
...afford one. While in many ways Playboy has become a bore-it seems more and more a triumph of distinctive packaging around a predictable product-the magazine sells 5,500,000 copies a month. The April issue will set an alltime record with almost $3,500,000 in advertising. The 17 Playboy Clubs and the Playboy resort hotels in Jamaica and Lake Geneva, Wis., have been so successful that plans are in the works for at least three new clubs, plus resorts in New Jersey, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Spain. Hefner's empire earned...