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...Office. Why should not an official letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some persons have expressed a fear that our embryo Thomassens would exercise their boyish propensities for mischief on the letter-box instead of on the much-enduring drain; but public opinion against their wanton mischief would be much stronger if our own personal convenience were to be interfered with. To obtain this improvement, it would, we suppose, be necessary to present a petition to the Post-Office authorities, and we hope that the suggestion will soon be adopted...
...produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When his ear improved, Shepard reapplied for active status and spent countless hours in the gym and Apollo flight simulators. Finally, in August 1969, he was designated, along with Navy Commander Edgar D. Mitchell, 40, and Air Force Major Stuart A. Roosa, 37, for Apollo...
...last week by halting construction of the controversial Cross-Florida Barge Canal. About a third of the 107-mile-long waterway has already been built across northern Florida by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Cost to date: $50 million, a great deal of money to go down the drain. But stopping the project. Nixon said, "will prevent a past mistake from causing permanent damage...
...speech in Faneuil Hall, Wald charged that the American judicial process is being "subverted" -especially through the courts' misuse of procedures relating to bail, sentencing and contempt of court-and warned that the "American traditions we've grown up under are going down the drain...
...success of the plan depends on one crucial and unknown variable-the number of people who are willing to move to help establish the necessary ratios. One participant said yesterday, "If not enough people are willing to move, people's hopes for full co-residency will go down the drain...