Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, says White, when Bobby heard that Johnson had been talking with newsmen, he was enraged, protested to Johnson about "this breach of confidence. The President assured the Attorney General that he hadn't told anyone about their conversation. The Attorney General observed directly to the President that the President was not telling the truth...
...risked inviting his own. When a picture he took of one O.A.S. murder made the papers, a man stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol on him. "I was not going to plead with him," Faas recalls. "I heard him cocking the pistol. I thought, 'Now I get it.' He fired twice, and zip, zip, a round went by each ear. Then he bought me another absinthe. 'Next time we kill...
...four retrorockets, each with a 2,500-lb. kick, to put the slowly spinning cabin into the proper trajectory. At 400,000 ft., the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere, and communications, as expected, went out in the intense heat of friction. In his last garbled transmission, McDivitt could be heard to say, "O.K." Outside, the heat shield glowed red-hot as the temperature rose to 3,000° F. The astronauts were enthralled. "The prettiest part of it all is re-entry," said McDivitt afterward. "We saw pink light coming up around our spacecraft. It got oranger, then redder, then...
White said he knew that anything he said during his space walk would be heard over live radio and TV, confessed that he was worried about "What do you say to 194 million people?" He decided to chat with McDivitt as if no body at all were listening. "What you heard," he said, "was two test pilots conducting their mission in the best manner possible...
...Constitution is utterly mute on the subject, but Douglas heard echoes in the Bill of Rights (the first eight amendments): "Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras [fringe areas]," he said, "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance." According to Douglas, "zones of privacy" emanate from the First Amendment's "penumbra" right of association, the Third Amendment's prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" without consent in peacetime, the fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and the fifth's privilege against sel-incrimination...