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...choppy South Pacific for five minutes until the astronauts-strapped in upside-down and rapidly becoming queasy-righted it with three flotation bags. That brief misadventure could not come close to dampening the exuberance of Astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly as they arrived for their red-carpet welcome on the Ticonderoga's flight deck. "By golly," said Young, "you taxpayers-we taxpayers-got your money's worth...
...regime of Dictator George Papadopoulos, *however, evidently took umbrage at the red carpet treatment accorded Mangakis; ambassadors, after all, do not usually see political prisoners off. Charging that "some foreigners and their lackeys" had carried out "an unprecedented act of gangsterism," it abruptly declared Ambassador Limbourg persona non grata. Limbourg, as surprised as everyone else, suffered a mild heart attack. At week's end the West German Foreign Ministry agreed to recall Limbourg...
Inside, the blanketed black bodies lie strewn about the carpet and couches of Derek Bok's office. It is 2:30 in the morning on Monday. The occupation is 93 hours old. The bodies sleep without sound. The fear that their sleep might be interrupted by a club in the head or a police boot in the groin has long since died within them. In the hallway outside, a girl in a pink blanket informs the few still awake downstairs that it's after curfew and everyone but the Night Crew should be sleeping. In the timelessness inside this occupied...
...trimmed beard had ragged, blue-black edges. Bill Clay had sat in the middle of the panel table while Dr. Lloyd Elam, president of Meharry, had called Knowles, the former head of Mass General and now president-designate of the Rockefeller Foundation, and de Vise on the carpet for "unconscious racism." One black woman in the audience became so upset with de Vise that she requested the black member of the panel closest to de Vise to territorially disassociate himself from the white health researcher by sliding his cardboard name plate closer to him and away from de Vise...
...trimmed beard had ragged, blue-black edges. Bill Clay had sat in the middle of the panel table while Dr. Lloyd Elam, president of Meharry, had called Knowles, the former head of Mass General and now president-designate of the Rockefeller Foundation, and de Vise on the carpet for "unconscious racism." One black woman in the audience became so upset with de Vise that she requested the black member of the panel closest to de Vise to territorially disassociate himself from the white health researcher by sliding his cardboard name plate closer to him and away from de Vise...