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Glenn took the news of the deadly threat with characteristic calmness. He made the adjustments necessary to keep the retrorocket packet in place, hand-flew his capsule into proper attitude for descent???and braced himself. Timed by a preset mechanism in the capsule, the braking rockets fired in sequence. Friendship 7 shuddered. "It feels like I'm going clear back to Hawaii," Glenn radioed. He could feel his body beginning to be squeezed by the buildup of G forces. Outside the window, he could see a fiery glow. It grew brighter and brighter. "It became apparent that something was tearing...
...principals, one was a 194½-pound man, aged 32, of Irish descent???Jack Dempsey. Thick-lipped, splay-nosed, laconic, he was to demonstrate whether or not he could again transform himself into a smashing feline whirlwind in the boxing ring as he could from 1919 to 1926 when he was world's champion heavyweight...
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