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That meant there were plenty of female (not to mention male) political prisoners in Guinea, and that Sékou was just a bit worried about his seven-year grip on the government...
...NASA parlance-"direction oriented." When he wanted to move forward, he merely moved the stick forward; when he wanted to go into reverse, he pulled the stick back; he moved it right or left for sideward motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide...
Appreciation. Four years ago, Republicans in Louisville wrested city hall away from the Democrats after a 28-year freeze-out-and passed one of the first public-accommodations laws adopted by a major Southern city. Last week Louisville's appreciative Negroes helped the G.O.P. keep its municipal grip by electing a 52-year-old moderate, Kenneth A. Schmied, to a four-year term as mayor. Also elected: the first Negro ever to serve as prosecutor of city police court...
...Live One. After rigging the new instruments, Dr. Humphreys stayed up most of the night teaching himself how to manipulate them. He cut into his patient gently, slicing ever so carefully down to and around the grenade. Then the pincers. Slowly the surgeon got a grip; tenderly he lifted the grenade and moved it toward a sand-filled container. Less than four minutes after he start ed, Dr. Humphreys sighed: "It's in the box." Mr. Chin...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. In booming pre-Civil War America, ingenuity, speed, and a belief in the future gave the settlers their grip on the vast land, and Historian Boorstin brings the period to life in a masterful blend of statistics and steamboat races...