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Solemn as a team of surgeons emerging from a hospital amphitheater, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week reported on an operation of their own. Operation Echo A12, they said, was highly successful -but the patient died...
...operation began when a Thor rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a tightly folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
...been insulted by a nigger. He is ostracized and must turn to be Indians in the town, who are enraged over Aziz's arrest. This club scene is not as well handled as others, with the exception of an eloquent speech by Mrs. Moore on the terrifying echo in the caves...
...echo undermines one's hold on life. It says, 'Pathos, piety, courage-they exist, but are identical, and so is fifth. Everything exists, but nothing has value.' If one had spoken of vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the comment would have been the same-'ouboom.' If one had spoken with the tongues of angels and pleaded for all the unhappiness of the world, past, present, and to come, for all the misery men must undergo, whatever their opinion and position and however much they dodge and bluff-it would amount to the same...
...unitarians" won at the conference, and Tshombe lost; but even as he packed for the trip home, the stubborn Katangese was muttering a word that later would echo far: Secession...