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...Will history repeat?": Hank Walker, who risked his neck to get the picture, and the late meticulous planner, General Douglas Mac-Arthur, who risked his reputation in carrying out the landing, would be pained indeed at your arbitrary postponement of the event. September 15, 1950, was the only date within months when the enormous tides at Inchon, some 36 feet from ebb to flood, crested sufficiently to permit the landing to be made-successfully, as this former Marine can gratefully attest from firsthand experience...
...effect, the modifications have made Apollo a brand new spacecraft that will have to be tested for structural integrity, vibration characteristics during liftoff, and behavior in a vacuum before it can be requalified for flight. Such testing has pushed the initial launch date for the Apollo series to early summer of next year. But this winter the spacecraft will face its baptism by fire in Houston, when NASA engineers try to set a full-scale Apollo ablaze under varied atmospheric conditions...
...after 3½ years of comparatively peaceful occupation of Denmark, Hitler suddenly decided to apply me final solution to the approximately 8,500 Danish Jews. To start the roundup, the Gestapo chose a date when most Jews would be at the synagogues-the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, which fell on Sept. 30. Early that evening, Dr. Werner Best, the ranking Nazi in Denmark, was so confident of the outcome that he happily wired Hitler, "Denmark is free of Jews...
...East German regime also publishes an encyclopedia that keeps East Germans up-to-date on the meaning of foreign words they may hear in movies, or on the West German television that is watched by most East Germans. Academic freedom, for example, is defined as "the obsolete viewpoint that professors and students should enjoy independence from social demands in their university work." Coca-Cola gets far more Objektivist treatment. It is simply "a soft drink sold in all countries under U.S. influence...
...improved and her skin became warm and dry. Then they removed the balloon. Since then, her heart has performed adequately on its own. Further recovery has been as normal as that of other heart attack victims, and last week, six weeks after the operation, her doctors were considering a date to send her home...