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...quite well packed," he said. "The way it adhered to the core tube, it gave me the impression of being moist." The astronauts managed to collect 20 Ibs. of rocks for the sample box that was supposed to hold sorted and identified rocks. Unfortunately, with time running out, none of the rocks were actually catalogued. At the urging of controllers ("Head on up the ladder"), the astronauts rolled up the solar wind experiment, placed it in a sample box, sealed both boxes, and hauled them via a clothesline-like pulley into the lunar module. Two hours and 31 minutes after...
...None of the astronauts slept very long before awakening to the most momentous day of their lives. Collins got six hours, Aldrin and Armstrong five apiece. During Apollo's eleventh revolution of the moon, Aldrin and Armstrong donned their space suits and crawled through a tunnel for a final checkout of the lunar module before its long separation from the command module. They paid particular attention to Eagle's propulsion systems?the tanks containing the hypergolic fuels that fire the descent and ascent engines, and the pressure gauges on the helium that forces the fuels into the combustion chambers, where...
...Asian Revolution has no doubt got bogged down. None of these countries in Southeast Asia has completely established a new identity. The question now is how to fulfill expectations of people whom you have mobilized on the basis that, once the white man was gone, they would occupy all the big houses and the big desks. That requires getting your economy going...
...Hero. None of that cold-eyed passion for historical reality carried over in his pupils' work. Ingres inherited his cold eye, but turned it on unimaginable odalisques and comfortable patrons. His other illustrious pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, almost reversed the master by ushering in a new school of romantic pageantry. Like David, Gros became caught up in the whirlwind of contemporary politics. Through Josephine, he met Bonaparte in 1796, was given a role in the French army's confiscation of Italian art treasures, then taken into Napoleon's entourage...
...None appreciated the painting more than Eugène Delacroix, who compared its creator to Homer. An aristocrat who was reputed to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand, Delacroix both extended and refined Gros' epic romanticism. Though his high baroque style claimed no successor, Delacroix's techniques in juxtaposing complementary colors influenced Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionists. He hit upon the method on a visit to Morocco in 1832. He found that by counterpointing color opposites, which by the law of optics fused in the eye to form gray, he could attain at once...