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Workaday Fatalism. Sixteen times the U.S. has rocketed men far into space without so much as a stubbed-toe casualty. There had been the heart-stopping suspense of Alan Shepard's first flat-arc flight in 1961, the terrifying uncertainty of John Glenn's reentry into the atmosphere...
Despite the size of the budget-a record $135 billion-the President has relatively little room in which to maneuver. At least $100 billion can neither be cut nor shifted around. The rest will certainly come in for what House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon calls a "skeptical evaluation" from...
There is really no sound reason for requiring the statement, and none was given by the legislators who introduced it. The original legislation, passed in 1958, obligated students to sign a disclaimer, swearing that they didn't believe in or belong to any organization which advocated overthrowing the government, in...
To simulate fires in orbit, the scientists loaded test chambers containing high concentrations of oxygen into KC-135 jet transports and flew them through parabolic arcs, creating 30 seconds of zero gravity during each maneuver. In the brief period of weightlessness, they ignited a variety of materials within the test...
Faced with that silence, the power company's lawyers eventually asked Simpson's court to hold that the questions must be answered. Whereupon all seven justices recused themselves. The last time such a maneuver put the court in a bind was in the Depression 1930s, when the justices...