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...foie gras, were amiable enough. "This should not take too long," Prince Souvanna explained, puffing on a big cigar. "Long conferences have no charm, and charm is one of the ingredients of life, at least among Laotians." The charm was slightly marred for Souvanna by acute discomfort from a boil so located as to make prolonged sitting painful (he skipped one session...
...President's back continued to plague him throughout his trip to Europe, but he concealed his discomfort. Back in the U.S., he took further treatment, underwent X-ray examinations, went on crutches again...
NASA officials then enlivened the symposium with a dramatic movie of the flight, some of it taken by cameras in the capsule focused on Commander Shepard's face. He showed little discomfort as the forces of acceleration and deceleration rose to their peaks. His eyes swung methodically to check instrument dials, and his lips moved to make his now-famous remarks: "All systems, A-O.K.," and "What a beautiful sight...
Redstone Ready. The lonely wait ahead of him was as familiar as the suiting-up process. Just three days before, Shepard had struggled into his pressure suit and suffered its discomfort for nearly four hours before the shot was canceled because of weather. Now the whole tedious preflight procedure had been repeated. Step by step the Redstone had been readied for launch. The capsule's innards had been checked and rechecked (Fellow Astronaut John Glenn had spent the previous two hours in a minute inspection) before a warning horn sent mournful blasts across the palmetto flats. The Redstone...
...zany plot. It was little Coquilhatville, a cluster of dilapidated huts and buildings on the hottest, wettest spot along the whole 2,900-mile Congo River. Here the Congolese dignitaries had chosen to gather for their latest round of unity talks, perhaps on the assumption that the sheer discomfort of the place would force an early settlement...