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...together into space by a Titan IIIC rocket. Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link up in space with the lab, and continue the work...
Unlike so many English celebrities who descend on the U.S. for a few weeks and condescend forever after, White brought with him an open mind, sharp eyes and immense erudition. His journal, conscientiously pieced together between lecture engagements and airport departures, is largely a testament to the diversity of the U.S. Whether describing a loggerhead shrike in North Carolina or an egghead racist in New Orleans, wandering over Beverly Hills ("reminds you of the environs of Florence and Fiesole") or Washington, D.C. ("the chalk-white city half in love with Time"), White displayed even in this disjointed, unedited chronicle...
...closed that much. Assured that they did when he was thinking or talking, the Prime Minister warmed up to the work and smiled his approval. He had but one suggestion. He asked that there be sufficient space for him to autograph the thousands of covers that he expects will descend upon him-which happened, as it does with most subjects, the first time he was on our cover...
...great march was over, the last hallelujah had sounded from the speaker's stand, the crowd of some 25,000 had left the streets outside the starkwhite capital in Montgomery, and a period of relative peace seemed about to descend on Alabama's strife-torn civil rights scene. Then the white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four...
...first orbit, command-pilot Virgil T. Grissom and pilot John W. Young employed rockets to decrease the speed of the Gemini 3 capsule, causing it to descend into an orbit closer to the earth. The next time around, the pilots engaged rockets to push the Gemini 3 from side to side across the plane of the orbit...