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...more than five hours Kittinger sat on his nylon mesh seat chatting with Stapp and the scientists by radio, while they watched the readings of instruments that monitored his pulse, breathing and heartbeat. As everything was checked and rechecked for the start of the flight, Kittinger kept reporting, "No sweat. No sweat." Stapp says: "His heartbeats were more regular than the beats of those who monitored them...
These opinions represent some fundamental doubts about Harvard education, suggesting that the College's educational methods are unimaginative and old-fashioned, with many students caught up in a mesh of exams, papers, gradesheets, and course requirements...
...Whiz. In Philadelphia, after a state liquor-control agent testified that Stripteuse Julie Gibson concluded her "Dance of the Bashful Bride" wearing only a G string, Julie assured the judge that she had never seen or heard of such a garment and had ended her undulations modestly draped in mesh panties, declared with indignation: "I have never worn anything less...
...Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...
Shadows on the Water Garden. Embassy workers will look out into an enclosed court and water garden, screened over with metal-mesh aluminum to break the sunlight and give the effect of light filtering through tree branches. "With the courtyard," Stone points out. "the building will also get cross ventilation when it is not necessary to use the air conditioning." To set .off the building, Stone is using "another Oriental device," a pool to reflect the structure...