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Brecht on Brecht is a packet of instant genius, a revue-styled evening of poems, letters, songs, and scenes from a 20th century master of theater...
...huddled tensely, trying to decide what to do. The answer might mean life or searing death to John Glenn. The final decision was made by Operations Director Walter Williams: an attempt would be made to hold the heat shield in place by changing the re-entry procedure. The retrorocket packet was supposed to be jettisoned after the rockets themselves had been fired. But the packet itself was bound to the capsule by three thin metal bands. Williams figured that the bands might be strong enough to hold the shield to the capsule during the descent. He knew that the heat...
Glenn took the news of the deadly threat with characteristic calmness. He made the adjustments necessary to keep the retrorocket packet in place, hand-flew his capsule into proper attitude for descent?and braced himself. Timed by a preset mechanism in the capsule, the braking rockets fired in sequence. Friendship 7 shuddered. "It feels like I'm going clear back to Hawaii," Glenn radioed. He could feel his body beginning to be squeezed by the buildup of G forces. Outside the window, he could see a fiery glow. It grew brighter and brighter. "It became apparent that something was tearing...
...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker mournfully told a Montreal audience of a prime piece of source material that got away. At the 1945 San Francisco Conference that set up the United Nations, recounted Diefenbaker, South Africa's late Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts casually tossed away a cigarette packet on which he had scrawled part of the first rough draft of the U.N. Charter. "It was surely one of the world's greatest documents," lamented Dief, "and I wanted to have it badly. But the TV cameras were on us, and I felt it would be undignified for a representative...
...Collapsible baby carriage to be marketed by Holland's Mutsaerts Kinder-wagenfabriek NV. The carriage (almost 4 ft. long by 3 ft. 2 in. high) can be folded through a system of hinges into a rectangular packet the size of a small suitcase (2½ ft. long by 1½ ft. wide by 1 ft. high), weighs...