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Once its target is located, a Skyhook rescue plane sends a 400-lb., do-it-yourself kit drifting downward by parachute. The bulky package, which is buoyant enough to float if it lands on water, contains a cylinder filled with helium and 500 ft. of woven nylon line with a special suit attached to one end, a balloon to the other. The man to be rescued must be in good enough physical shape to do a few simple things: put on the suit and inflate the balloon with helium. Once the big bag rises to the full length...
...landing craft that skittered across the water and up a Lake Erie beach last week looked like a product out of science fiction, a warship from some future conflict. Huge fans to port and starboard blasted downward into sand and foam; giant propellers in the stern shoved the vehicle along as it carted its cargo of armed marines through a mock invasion. The strange craft moved at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. without touching either land or water...
...added the report, "his condition was hopeless, and the extraordinary efforts of the doctors to save him could not help but to have been unavailing." One bullet had hit near the base of the back of the President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear...
Professor Crane Brinton coaxes the drowsy toward consciousness with History 134a, a study of the European intellect and how it penetrated "downward into the crowd." Geography 101 helps arouse scholars with a stroll through the history of the English landscape, and undergraduates in Nat Sci 6 personally retrace the evolution of human awareness while Professor Howells lectures on the same subject...
...Onward & Downward. But mere Senate stature has never been enough for Hubert Humphrey. The druggist's son has always wanted to be President, or, failing that, at least Vice President of the U.S. In 1956 he thought he had been promised the vice-presidential nomination by Adlai Stevenson. Instead, Adlai declared that nomination wide open, told the delegates in Chicago to make up their own minds. Caught unprepared, Humphrey got lost in the sudden struggle between Estes Kefauver and John F. Kennedy. But he kept up his own forlorn fight, buttonholing whoever would listen, shaking hands until the last...