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Working in the weightless environment proved difficult and strenuous; Kerwin's pulse went up as high as 150 beats a minute. "Take it easy," advised Space Veteran Conrad,* whose own heartbeat rose only to 110. While Conrad held the rope to the cutters, Kerwin tried to direct the pole so that the blades hooked around the aluminum strip. "I can't stabilize myself," he complained as he failed again and again. "I just can't do it." Finally, just as the spacecraft was about to make another pass into darkness-which would have forced the astronauts...
...husky cutter Quimera, shown sailing home from Catalina, is at once the newest and the oldest of this cruising fleet...
...their husband, or their brother to go over there to be just as vicious. It's unbelievable. People don't understand what that does to your mind. You go into a village that has had a 1,000-lb. bomb-it's called the daisy cutter-a 1,000-lb. bomb dropped on it. You don't worry about taking prisoners because there are no prisoners. You don't know if you kill Viet Cong because you can't put the people together. That is what the people in this country have...
...theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not footproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to a root thieves will often settle for the rear wheel as frame. One of the authors of this article had hi Raleigh stolen while writing the place, in fact...
...Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not foolproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be clipped with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to rack, theieves will often settle for the rear wheel and frame. One of the authors of this article had his Raleigh stolen while writing the piece, in fact...