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...Your overdone account of the astronauts' brush with death is completely unrealistic. We lose brave men in the service every day, specifically due to "equipment failure" of one type or another. Yet their deaths are hardly noticed, except by their families. What's so different about an equipment failure in space? What is so important about this experimental gimmickry...
...real pity is that many of the students of our universities really feel that the theatrical radicals are the architects of a brave, new compassionate world, spiced with "rock" music, "acid" and "pot." There is a . . . group of students committed to radical change through violent means. Some of these may be irretrievable; all will require very firm handling. This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the department of philosophy or the department of English-it is a problem for the Department...
...book only Archer, a man of enlightened desperation, can make the imaginative effort necessary to understand that for practical purposes, man is what he does. Like many a brave individual before him, he comes to the hard knowledge that blindness to human possibilities is like ignorance of the law. In both cases, one is guilty by default...
...wind; then the peripheral ends of the tubes were released from the ground. Slowly the huge fronds swung vertically, shining in the klieg lights, and the whole sculpture rose to 150 ft. Says Piene: "We pulled her down after ten minutes up there. Sue's a brave girl but there had to be safety ropes. Otherwise I suppose she'd be in the stratosphere...
...Flight Center in Maryland to get fresh information firsthand. The President discussed with Michael Collins, the former astronaut who is now Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, the inherent risks of challenging frontiers. Said Collins later: "He talked about the covered wagons going across to California. Those were brave people then and there were a lot of graves along the way. But they went ahead...