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...adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, has begun to attract attention as a modestly budgeted sleeper that just might translate high-minded feminism into box-office success. Walker confides to his agent his plan to check on the proceedings, and he responds with weary irony: "Terrific, Gordo. You're just what they need down there. You can hassle Lee and piss on the press. Get drunk, start fights. Just like old times, right...
...said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed a $73 million pot.) In the final days before the drawing, tickets for the outsize prize were selling at the frenzied rate of a million an hour...
...determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they mostly clung to the walls. The astronauts were sympathetic. Said Lousma: "You don't see Gordo flapping his wings in zero-g either...
...that stage of the flight, the astronauts were sleeping about six hours in each 24 and eating three daily meals of bite-size, freeze-dried food, which they rehydrated with a water pistol. They munched on cold spaghetti and meatballs, chicken sandwiches, and peanut cubes. They were feeling fine. "Gordo and Pete," Dr. Berry called up, "you've had 100 hours now, and all the [health] data look really excellent. All the rates and pressures are still well within normal range." Even the "lack of blue-bag activity" did not bother the medical men; Conrad had had only...
...from liftoff. Sitting at his control panel, Kraft said just one word: "Zap!"-a Buck Rogers exclamation to describe the blast of space guns. Then he got on the line to Cooper: "How does it feel for the U.S. to be a world record holder, Gordo?" Replied the laconic spaceman: "At last...