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...explosion. But most top NASA officials already think that the blast was probably the result of a defect in one of the two double-walled oxygen tanks. Under the extremes of pressure (920 lbs. per sq. in.) and temperature (-297° F.) inside the tanks, they say, a fragment of metal-perhaps a rivet or a piece from an internal cooling fan-could have flaked off. As this chip sheared away, there may have been a spark or another kind of combustion, Dr. Rocco Petrone, director of the Apollo program, told Congress at week's end. The additional heat...
...Austrian. Now you don't suppose these three countries gave America and England total sciences, do you? No. They held out on us. Thus Anglo-American knowledge of the mind was fragmentary. Thus we could not hope to solve the problem posed by Russia with brainwashing with the fragment of a science Russia let us have. We had to tackle the whole thing newly in Scientology, an Anglo-American Science. By the way-don't be surprised that certain Communist elements fight Scientology and try to give us a bad name. We have undone all their tricks...
...fast and shapely adventure tale is a rare enough creation. Dickey has surely achieved that. Just as surely he has reached for something more, a small classic novel in which action and reflection are matched and a man's return to primitive struggle produces some lasting fragment of interior knowledge. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Faulkner's The Bear come most easily to mind...
...little fells of ten or so, shot in the face. There are bullet or fragment holes in the back and buttocks, one of which had exited through his abdomen, the others lodged somewhere. He, like most of the others, came in lying in a pool of blood. Feces and ground up bits of bone were flowing out of the buttocks wound. Vomit ran from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from the face wound. We worked with him for a long time but his chances were slim...
...with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty, a death-in-life image, like T.S. Eliot's perception of "the skull beneath the skin...