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...Somewhere over the just-awakening revelry of Las Vegas, at 45,000 ft., Walker and -55 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton began their countdown prior to dropping the X-15 for its flight. Midway in the countdown, Walker interrupted by radio: "We've lost our liquid-nitrogen cooler. My mixing chamber quit." Without the cooler both his special flight suit and his cockpit would turn into bake ovens in the searing, supersonic flight to come. As the mother plane circled slowly, Walker jiggled the mixer handle. "I've worn out my fingers," he complained. Then: "That was touch...
...both guilty of conspiracy to murder. When the jury meets again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life on her second-degree charge. But on the conspiracy count alone, the jury could sentence them both to the gas chamber at San Quentin. As the two old lovers left the courtroom last week, Finch suddenly took the stunned Carole in his arms, nuzzled her dyed red hair, and whispered: "I love you, Carole. I'm sorry." She turned away...
...Hoodlum Priest. A crude but telling Christian cops-and-robbers story that ends with the robber condemned to the gas chamber, and guilt assigned...
Addressing his all-white Parliament in Cape Town in its chamber paneled in stinkwood, Verwoerd described his London trip as a "triumph." and blandly suggested that Macmillan's "strong words" against apartheid had been merely a gesture that Macmillan had been obliged to make in deference to Britain's "quite wrong" policies in its African colonies. What seemed to rankle most was Macmillan's line about the South African flag. Actually, cried Verwoerd. the flag would only be at half-mast if "we had chosen self-destruction and mass suicide." As it was, with South Africa established...
...seems, as one British observer has remarked, that the members of the House of Representatives "would rather not be right than be ex-Congressmen." It seems that all but two of the faint-hearted men of the lower chamber are infinitely anxious not to oppose the colorless but powerful man who has made himself Poobah of American patriotism...