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...Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept him as a running mate. Last week Bolivians witnessed a rerun...
...earth-girdling curve of a spacecraft in flight.* But before men can make a lunar excursion or perform other active missions outside the earth's atmosphere, they must learn to make those orbit alterations with exquisite precision. Spaceships must be maneuvered so surely that they can meet and mate aloft; their pilots must act as accurate and reliable links in the chain of information and command that loops between computers in flight and computers on the ground. Molly and her men showed surprising skill in that arcane...
...Quiet Surrender. The fun was over on Goldie's twelfth day loose. Swooping down to feast on a rabbit planted by his pursuers, he let himself be quietly seized by the legs and returned to his cage, where his mate Regina awaited. "It's good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps...
...this is what Sumner A. ("Huey") Long enjoys most. A Manhattan ship broker, Long, 42, turns into a regular Captain Bligh when he takes the wheel of his aluminum-hulled, 57-ft. yawl Ondine. "He never lets you rest," complains Ondine's mate, Alex Salm. "He'll drive you out of your mind just to make a tenth of a knot more speed." Replies Long: "If you enjoy a sport to the ultimate, the ultimate is your standard...
Lord Jim is the story of a blue-eyed, boyish sailor whose dreams of glory are lost at sea. Joseph Conrad's intricate turn-of-the-century novel expands a solitary act of cowardice into a moot question about every man's moral identity. As chief mate of the Patna, a leaky old steamer with some 800 Moslem pilgrims aboard, Jim joins his panicky crew in abandoning ship at the threat of a gale, only to meet disgrace when the doomed tub rides it out unattended. Thereafter Conrad's hero drags the ghost of his honor through...