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...five-mile depth might be as high as 265° F., and a passenger vehicle would need an immense cooling system. Finally, because a perfect vacuum could not be created within the tunnel, and because the vehicle would probably have to ride on some sort of rail, friction would slow it down-leaving it with insufficient kinetic energy to complete its trip without a source of additional power. In a long-distance Washington-Moscow tunnel, which at its midpoint would dip some 716 miles below the earth's sur face, the problems would surely be magnified beyond solution...
...orbital mechanics to take hold, and Schirra was able to largely ignore their strange effects and allow his pilot's instincts to take over. After blipping his thrusters to edge closer to Gemini 7, he fired short reverse blasts to come to a stop, since there is no friction in space to slow him down. Back and forth, up and down, he maneuvered with a precision that brought expressions of admiration from Borman and from ground control in Houston, which noted that at rendezvous he had used less than 50% of the maneuvering propellant he had aboard...
...Either the brakes had failed or the drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers...
...special two-year term last year,* his chances for re-election now seem to be seriously in doubt. Last week a campaign was under way to draft former (1955-61) Governor LeRoy Collins, 56, for the Democratic nomination. A rigorous, statesmanlike administrator who man aged to minimize racial friction during his crucial six years in the Statehouse (including the two-year unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which was set up by the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide inter-racial conciliation; he is now U.S. Under Secretary...
...made Illia's 1963 election possible, stepped down as army commander in chief. Ongania said that he was leaving because he objected to the President's choice for a new Secre tary of War. But insiders knew that the resignation climaxed months of behind-the-scenes friction between Illia and his army chief-and was a sign of trouble ahead...