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Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
...that "the charges against the defendant are false," or that the defendant will not get a fair trial. If people "are being prosecuted on baseless charges solely because of their race, then there has been an outrageous denial of their federal rights, and the federal courts are far from powerless to redress the wrongs done to them...
...whatsoever to share the responsibility" for the impact on the criminal process. "In some unknown number of cases the court's rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him." Seeing the police as now practically powerless, White worried about citizens who can "only engage in violent self-help with guns, knives and the help of their neighbors similarly inclined...
Handyman & Thief. Gennaro is coffinmaker, wreathmaker, funeral-insurance salesman, handyman, business manager, and hearse driver. He is also poor, and in Naples that means powerless. Caught without a chauffeur's license, he is slapped with a staggering fine and forbidden to drive. In debt for tobacco, rent, and worst of all, for coffin lumber, he limps through one hand-mangling day heaving shovelfuls of earth for a huge industrial corporation-and gets fired for incompetence. Employed in a sizzling restaurant kitchen, he is falsely accused of theft, gets fired again...
...Council meeting, CCA and Independent councillors alike acclaimed the job Ward has done with minimal funds and assistance. They expressed regret that the Council is powerless under the Charter to rehire him or find him a similar position. It is now up to the new City Manager, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. He can do the City a great service by finding Ward a new position as soon as possible. The youth of the City need a man like Ward, and the City needs some semblance of unity if it is to face more important issues, such as the Inner Belt...