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...would be the final battle of a war that began before both we and many members of the Vietnamese liberation forces had been born. We did not immediately see a role for ourselves in the struggle. But suddenly, the American bombers whined over Hanoi and Haiphong and dumped death earthward while people bicycled below. We held a successful strike meeting, left our classrooms, and tried to blockade the Kennedy building yet another time. In the police wagon that took me to jail, I met a kid I had not seen since he graduated from my high school five years earlier...
...accumulated findings - to say nothing of the dramatic observations already reported from space. Astronaut Gibson, a solar physicist by training, managed to photograph for the first time the very beginnings of a solar flare - a sudden, violent release of enormous energy from the sun's interior. Looking earthward, the astronauts observed strange, swirling eddies in warm ocean currents that are apparently involved in the exchange of heat between water and atmosphere, an important factor in global weather and climate...
...bombing is over. No longer do American heavy bombs sail earthward, destroying homes and villages and people and dreams. No longer do American anti-personnel bombs land silently in fields at night, waiting sinisterly to explode at human contact, shredding bodies, blinding children, killing cousins and friends and lovers...
When both of his parachutes failed in a recent jump from a plane 3,300 feet above the Coolidge, Ariz., airport, Skydiver Bob Hall, 19, plummeted earthward and hit the ground at an estimated 60 m.p.h. Miraculously, he survived. A few days later, recovering from nothing more serious than a smashed nose and loosened teeth, he told reporters what the plunge had been like: "I screamed. I knew I was dead and that my life was ended. All my past life flashed before my eyes, it really did. I saw my mother's face, all the homes...
...adding rigidity. At first, the antenna legs will be extended only 358 ft. from the craft, to test their stability. Then they will grow to their full length-750 ft. apiece. Already oriented towards the earth by magnetism, RAE-A's lower V antenna will also be pulled earthward by gravity, which will further stabilize the spidery satellite...