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...ease the psychological adjustment for Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who will take a space walk during the flight of Gemini 12 this fall, NASA now plans to acclimatize him more gradually to open space. Before he leaves Gemini's cabin entirely, Aldrin will poke his head through the open hatch, stand up on his seat and shoot pictures with only the upper half of his body outside the spacecraft. NASA officials point out that Gordon and Gemini 9's Eugene Cernan, both of whom had trouble with EVA, took their space walks before their open-hatch photography sessions...
...government is drifting, however, Ongania does not want to be reminded of the fact. Fortnight ago, he abruptly closed down a satirical magazine that had dared to poke fun at his walrus mustache. He was even angrier over the grumbling at the University of Buenos Aires, long a hotbed of Communist and far-left activity. Fearing mass student unrest, he accused all nine state universities of "subversive action," wiped out their traditional autonomy, and put them under the control of the national Ministry of Education. That night, police moved onto university campuses, throwing tear gas and swinging clubs and rifle...
Modesty Blaise, based loosely on the adventures of a British comic-strip heroine, presumably intends to poke fun at the James Bond school of chic, sexy savagery. The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority over its prototypes, Modesty is less a spoof than a limp-wristed kind of fairy tale, witlessly cluttered up with homosexual malice, artsy gift-shop decor, and the same old gaggy gadgetry on which the Bondsmen have patents pending...
...went through an awfully hectic week, dashing about for more public appointments, ceremonies, speeches and meetings than reporters could remember in months. They were at a loss to account for it all until last week, when it came out that Writer Jim Bishop, 58, had chosen that period to poke around the White House gathering material for another of his Day books-this one A Day in the Life of President Johnson. The President put in a beautiful day. "He's a heckuva man," marveled Bishop. And, more to the point, "a heckuva producer...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...