Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...session after session, the Rules Committee has taken the heat for blocking bills that the House leadership wanted to keep from an embarrassing vote; e.g., a bill for veterans' benefits that Congressmen would not dare vote against. In 1949 the House passed the 21-day rule, a "liberal" reform which provided that a bill could be called up by the chairman of any committee after the Rules Committee had blocked it for 21 days. In the next Congress, the 21-day rule was politely killed with Speaker Sam Rayburn looking on approvingly. Reason: too many embarrassing bills were coming...
Wilma won her first heat by 10 yds. Before the semifinal, she whiffed spirits of ammonia to clear her head ("Cigar smoke always gives me a headache, and there's lots of cigars here") and again won by 10 yds. In the final. Wilma came off the blocks a split second behind the field. Then, as an appreciative, hoarse male bellow swept through the Garden, Wilma turned on her speed with 30 yds. to go and won as she pleased. Her time of 6.9 sec. tied the world record she herself had set last month in Los Angeles...
...Talking to Us!" Then came an anxious moment. Had Chimp No. 65 survived? The capsule's heat shield had disappeared, and its landing-shock bag was torn. Air Force Veterinarian Major Richard Benson stood close beside the mechanics as they took off the capsule's hatch. From inside came a whimpering sound. "He's alive!" cried Major Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam...
...watched by the human astronauts who have been selected to ride in Project Mercury's spacecraft. If it had been completely successful, one of them would have been scheduled to take a similar ride in a few months. But the erratic launching behavior, the loss of retrorockets and heat shield, and the seepage of sea water into the capsule will almost surely persuade NASA to use more chimps before risking...
...major problem is in getting the pictures back to earth. If they are to be sent by radio -as was the case with last week's Samos -they will lose priceless detail. Ideally, the actual films would be shot back to earth in a recoverable package braked by heat-resistant wings or parachute-but at the present state of the science, this is a highly problematical maneuver...