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...assembled a complex stereo system. Last week the 43-year-old Navy captain continued to live up to his reputation as Houston's No. 1 amateur mechanic. During a daring and dangerous four-hour walk in space-the longest ever attempted-he and Fellow Astronaut Joseph Kerwin freed Skylab's jammed solar wing, thus probably saving the mission and brightening chances for the completion of the $2.6 billion Skylab program...
Still, Robert Kennedy sometimes freed himself from the manipulators. At one point in the middle sixties, he blurted out that the United States should send blood to the National Liberation Front, hardly a cagey political ploy. In the years before his 1968 bid for the Presidency, he traveled often to southern California, to help his friend Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union, working quietly in the days before the television cameras followed him everywhere...
...sooner were the freed prisoners on the streets and vowing to "revenge the revolution" than a rumor spread that more political prisoners were still inside Villa Devoto. With that, the crowd stormed the gates and the guards opened fire, leaving two dead, nine wounded. Their authority compromised, government officials subsequently found themselves in the ludicrous position of having to haggle with all kinds of prisoners, including psychopathic murderers who demanded that they be released from a Buenos Aires asylum...
...Creator made a bad mistake. He liberated me. Invoking the names of Tolstoi and Jefferson, who in their own middle-age had freed their slaves, he said: "Arise, Mr. Trout, you are free, you are free." At the same time Vonnegut paradoxically decided the rest of my life for me. I was to become a respected thinker, win the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and die a fulfilled individual. I was shocked to learn this, but I wasn't the least bit thankful. Because my whole life, as he wrote it in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five and then...
Demand. The deal was made: the 30 prisoners flown to Havana, the proclamation duly printed, the police leashed. Cuba's chargé d'affaires appeared, as specified, on television to report that the freed rebels had safely arrived in Havana. But then Leonhardy's captors made an additional demand for his freedom: $80,000 in ransom money. A day later, the ransom was paid; nine hours afterward, Leonhardy was found, exhausted and unshaven, in a Guadalajara street. He called his 76-hour captivity a "terrible ordeal. I prayed a lot. I didn't know when they...