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Yovicsin has been suffering from a murmur, caused by a ruptured in the mitral valve of the heart...
...original seven Mercury astronauts, only two besides Cooper remain as active participants: Virgil Grissom will command the first of the Gemini flights, and Walter Schirra Jr. will lead the stand-by crew. Donald ("Deke") Slayton, who resigned his Air Force commission in 1963 after doctors discovered a heart murmur, is now assistant director of the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, in charge of crew operations. Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn made an abortive try at politics, later retired from the Marine Corps, is now a director of a soft-drink company. Alan Shepherd was grounded 1½ years...
...raged on and on about imperialist intervention. "The white is untouchable," sneered Brazzaville Congo's foreign minister. "A white, especially if his name is Carlson, is worth thousands of blacks." Guinea's representative charged that white mercenaries had "massacred hundreds and hundreds of defenseless Congolese" without a murmur from the West, because "their skins were black like those assassinated in Mississippi...
...issued last spring, President Pusey said that he hoped it would stimulate a "great debate" within the University. Today, as the Faculty meets for its first full discussion of the report, that debate has conspicuously failed to materialize. With a few exceptions, the report has evoked only an embarrassed murmur of indifference from most members of the community...
Wide Swath. There was a time not too long ago when President John Kennedy, relaxing with friends in the oval office, would grin innocently and murmur, "Say, whatever became of Lyndon Johnson?" That crack always got a good laugh, for it was a succinct expression of the oblivion into which Johnson had fallen as Vice President...