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...working condition. Just 27 minutes after launch, Ranger's C.C. & S. (Central Computer and Sequencer) began issuing commands that had been stored in its electronic brain. Explosive pin-pullers released solar battery panels, which unfolded like the wings of a butterfly. At the same time, Ranger's dish-shaped, long distance radio antenna swung out into position. A few minutes later the C.C. & S. commanded six light sensors to find the direction of the sun. Then an attitude control system of gyros and small nitrogen gas jets went into action, turning Ranger III until it locked...
...Just Sit By Me." Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high...
...Friday meat-fish option could be overlooked "if well prepared meat meals were served on the other six days of the week," the story says. "Unfortunately, the current trend has been toward excessive amounts of bread and potatoes in an unsuccessful attempt to compensate for the inferior main dish...
...finished with bamboo tubing. A Honan commune owning 6,000 pigs and producing 300,000 Ibs. of fish a year, saw it all taken by the state while the workers' total daily diet was limited to dough buns, a few ounces of chopped cabbage, and a single dish of noodles...
Girl with a Suitcase (Titanus; Ellis Films) is the latest hot dish from Italy: Claudia Cardinale. Billboarded all over Europe as the sexcessor to MM and BB, CC is an RR employee's daughter who at 22 has won pp. of publicity but shows scarcely a cc. of talent. However, her other dimensions (37-23-37) are more impressive, and she has the sort of soft wide sulky mouth that champagne glasses were designed...