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Bright Sun, Black Sky. At T minus 3, the "cherry picker" escape crane drew slowly away from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
Boya spent four months building his special plunge-o-sphere, a 1,200-lb. steel framework covered with seven layers of rubber, equipped it with 13 canisters of oxygen in case he was trapped behind the falls' water curtain-a precaution dictated by another fallsman who went over in a steel barrel in 1930, spent 22 hours behind the curtain, suffocated when his air supply ran out. Trucking his sphere to the Niagara River, Boya launched it into the current, climbed aboard and floated off. Niagara Parks Commission Chief Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures...
...position of the sun, he did not see any stars or planets. When the first parachute opened, he got an 11-G shock, but did not mind it much. Through the periscope he watched the second parachute open; then, without haste, he made ready for landing. He disconnected his oxygen hose, loosened belts that held his body to the contour couch. The landing in the Atlantic was soft. For a few mo ments the capsule lay on its side with one porthole under water. Slowly it righted itself, and Commander Shepard opened the door to greet the rescue helicopter...
...sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety not to let him go," to cluster in the hospital. Novelist Cassill parrots John Malcolm Brinnin's gruesome description of Dylan Thomas' similar death in an oxygen tent, concluding with the moment in which a fellow poet clasped "the cold, yellowing feet" of the corpse "in a gesture either of pleading or of farewell...
Five years ago, the industry finally launched a $7 billion modernization program. By means of widespread automation and the introduction of such advanced techniques as oxygen lancing of traditional open-hearth furnaces (which can double a furnace's production), steel has made itself one of the nation's most efficient industries. Because it has got more from its modernized facilities, the industry has vastly increased its capacity while allowing its less efficient plants to remain idle. This trend makes capacity figures misleading as a measure of the industry's health. Modernization also increases the productivity of steelworkers...