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...astronauts' gym, jogged across the sprawling space center (inexplicably, the heart irregularity always vanished after a good run) and kept up his piloting skills by flying with other astronauts in dual-control jets. Over the years, he also consulted prominent cardiologists, including Paul Dudley White. All for naught; though the irregularity did not recur for months at a time, it inevitably came back. Then, in 1970, it again went away. In fact, a whole year passed without an episode. Finally, Slayton and Dr. Charles Berry, then the astronauts' chief physician, felt sufficiently encouraged to begin a series...
...Goat-Boy, there is no real urgency in Earth's novels. His characters exhibit a comfortable, charming nihilism. Fat with alternatives, they can change roles as easily as socks. As an immortal resident of Parnassus tells the hallucinating hero of The Sot-Weed Factor, "There's really naught in the world up here but clever music...
...reject the narrow visions of those who tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect; that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure; that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done...
...when in the sixth. Broberg sent one out to center which carried over Dave Ignacio's head. Virtually assured of two bases. Broberg attempted to stretch the hit out to a triple. Ignacio's perfect throw to Mike Thomas cut down Broberg and Dartmouth's big chance went for naught...
...long as all men continue to seek a better life for all our citizens. Unless this nation exists at peace at home and abroad, then the work of Columbus and Vespucci and La Guardia and all the other prominent people of Italian lineage mentioned this morning would be for naught...