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...time, Thoreau's blow did not count for much. He went to jail for refusing to pay his poll tax-$1.50-his way of protesting against a Government that permitted slavery. But someone, possibly one of Thoreau's aunts, paid off the revenuers, and he was freed after one night behind bars...
Tyrone Collins had been indicted last May in Mobile for assault with intent to kill for his part in a rumble with boys from a rival school. Freed on $500 bail, Collins later moved with his family to Philadelphia and failed to appear in the Mobile court when his case came up for trial last month. Thus he forfeited his bail, and the bonding company dispatched two freelance agents to bring him back...
Eyeball Maneuvers. From the time that Schirra made the final major thrust that moved his ship up toward Gemini 7's circular orbit, Gemini 6 was completely on its own, freed from direct guidance by Houston, largely dependent on its on-board computer, its radar and Command Pilot Schirra's "eyeball" maneuvering. Both Schirra and Stafford literally had their hands full. Schirra's left hand was on the OAMS (Orbital Attitude Maneuvering System) translation stick, which controls Gemini's 85-Ib. and 100-lb. thrusters, and is-in NASA parlance-"direction oriented." When he wanted...
...Gaulle's aloofness freed his opponents from wasting breath and posters fighting each other; it was all against De Gaulle. To a man they joined in flaying De Gaulle for his anti-Common Market, anti-NATO, anti-American attitudes without ever being forced to define their own views very clearly. They hammered at the futile, expensive grandeur of the force de frappe, lamented such very real social needs of the nation as schools to hospitals...
Finishing Him Off. Without raising his voice, Kosygin attacked NATO, ("Why are you arming West Germany and setting her against us?"); colonialist imperialism ("In countries which have not yet freed themselves from the imperialist yoke there is colonial slavery, worse perhaps than under the Roman Empire"); and the notion of a Johnson-Kosygin meeting ("Not feasible" until after the war in Viet Nam is resolved). On Viet Nam itself, Kosygin was amazingly ill-informed ("You have more than 100,000 troops there, and you are sending another...