Word: crew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skins and red hair. He also let his men shoot down a few indigenes after a minor misunderstanding. Subsequent Western visitors apparently felt free to kill any native on whim. In 1811, an American whaler added a touch of Yankee ingenuity. Some island girls were lured aboard. After the crew had made a night of it, the girls were forced to swim for shore while the mate took potshots at their bare backs...
...Didn't He Call the Police In all accounts of the accident, the most mysterious gap?and unquestionably the most serious?was in what happened next. Why did he not immediately summon the police or a fire department rescue crew? "My conduct and conversation during the next several hours," Kennedy told the TV audience, "to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all. My doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion as well as shock. I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on physical...
...second row are the flight surgeon (whose shorthand designation is "Surgeon," never "Doc"), and the spacecraft communicator, or "Capcom." White dots sliding across the surgeon's console screen indicate heart and respiration rate's of the astronauts. Capcom, always an astronaut himself, handles all communication with the crew, giving the men who are deep in space a direct link with one of their own. Only in emergencies does anyone else take the microphone. There were none with Apollo...
...lighted Death of a Salesman are missing the point. (Besides, if it's a death, it's a movie death. A central duplicity is being practiced here-a duplicity which violently, perhaps fatally, transgresses principles of minimum interference. How likely is it that a man whose drag a film crew wit him from house to house, despite tapering sales?) This isn't any salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions of salesman...
...flight by three men-one a doctor. These vehicles are only forerunners of a giant space station that NASA plans to orbit by the late 1970s. The first station will probably accommodate twelve people, including the first American spacewoman. It will remain aloft for at least ten years, with crew members rotated every six months...