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Levison said that no first floor rooms at Lowell have fire door exits, because "the windows are thought to be the second method of egress...
...deal with such problems, and to avoid the recriminations that surrounded the prisoner exchanges at the end of the Korean War, the Pentagon has devised a program with the elaborate and somewhat mysterious name of Operation Egress Recap. (Possibly a combination of the prisoners' "egress" from North Viet Nam and their "recapture" by the U.S., though Washington spokesmen profess uncertainty as to what the terms actually mean.) U.S. officials hope to bring out the prisoners by sending Air Force C-141 Medevac planes directly to Hanoi; more likely the Communists will fly the men to Laos or some other neutral...
...first sight," concedes Jane's in an editorial foreword, the Soviet navy "appears to be poised for control of all ingress and egress about narrow waters." But Jane's detects a "subtlety not generally appreciated by laymen. Most recent Soviet warships were apparently designed for a self-sufficient limited role of being able to reply to any attack made on them rather than to pose an attitude of strike action...
...control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good faith, they have made arrangements with the Administration to control "ingress and egress" from Low, supposedly in an attempt to limit the possibility of confrontation with the police. They have used the existence of the barricades they unilaterally set up as evidence of an implicit "agreement" between them and the Low demonstrators, an "agreement" they accuse Low demonstrators of violating whenever "nonrepresentative" persons...
...Shorty" Powers, sometime Voice of Project Mercury, describing Gus Grissom's first landing? "The drogue parachute is deployed, and the astronaut has a visual indication of it" (The drogue chute is open, and Gus can see it), and "The astronaut has indicated that he will proceed to effect egress" (Gus says he's coming...