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...Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including the astronauts' own space suits and the craft's insulating foam-are being redesigned using materials that are more fire-resistant...
Reasonable Doubt. Rejection is only part of the process. Lawyers exploit voir dire as their only chance to make friends with individual jurors. They joke, flatter, hatch homilies and seek what Manhattan's Stanley Reiben calls "transference of identity." All the while, the defense attorney struggles to get across the law's presumption that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As Houston's Walter F. Walsh points out: "Many jurors will not and cannot, within the confines of conscience, find a defendant not guilty just because there...
Thus it was that the ill-fated Apollo was equipped with a hatch that took 90 seconds to open-much too long to save the astronauts, who died within 20 seconds of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide. Thus it also was that the spacecraft contained materials that had been tested for flammability under pure oxygen at a pressure of 5 Ibs. per sq. in. but not under the more dangerous 16 Ibs. used in the ground test...
...prevent another such disaster, the space officials said they were working on a new Apollo escape hatch that could be opened in two seconds in a ground emergency. Less flammable materials are also being studied for space suits and the spacecraft interior. As a further precaution, the Apollo cabin during future ground tests will probably be filled with normal air, rather than the pure oxygen that fed the fire...
...view that the bombing may stiffen rather than soften Hanoi's will to continue fighting. Conceding that Germany and Japan did not cave in under massive aerial attacks during World War II, he points out that U.S. and Allied demands for unconditional surrender left them without "an escape hatch. They had no alternative but to stand and take it." In Viet Nam, by contrast, the U.S. is making no such demand, instead is assuring the Northerners that "a better life awaits them if they cease an aggressive war which offers them nothing but increasing losses." Says Taylor...