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Someday, when I have enough money, I am going to have a house with a massage room, a steam room, a bar, and a bedroom big enough for two 7075. The floor will be covered with a white rug four inches thick, with a polar-bear skin near the hifi. And the bed, oh, maneroonian, the bed will be adequate for an exhibition match between the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams...
...skill during service in the American West, headed south in a steam launch and three smaller boats. The launch got wedged in the ice, two of the boats were abandoned, and the desperate men barely made it across the ice pack to Cape Sabine as winter and the polar night descended. In the minds of all were the fates of two previous expeditions-those of U.S. Lieut. Commander George De Long and Britain's Sir John Franklin, which ended with the loss of both leaders and more than...
...chimp began his pioneering trip through space, another U.S. missile, bearing an earth satellite, was launched from Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was an Air Force Samos (from Satellite and Missile Observation System), and it went into an almost perfectly circular polar orbit 300-350 miles above the earth...
...choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...
...virtuoso feat that is rapidly becoming standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...