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Assassin Somarama straightforwardly declared: "I have done this thing to a man who did me no wrong-for the sake of my religion, my language and my race." High Priest Buddharakitha truculently declared that he had been railroaded. The judge unhesitatingly sentenced both Somarama and Buddharakitha to hang...
Dead of Night. For the sake of secrecy, the area had been cleared of all workers, but to the consternation of the police official who hurried on board, the Soviet captain could not or would not use his ship's cranes to unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy...
...from being a passive space vehicle that is just up there to coast along. Though it weighs only a little more than one ton (Russia's Vostok weighed five tons), it is packed with instruments, controls and safety devices, many of them merely duplicate systems for the sake of safety. Sealed into an actual capsule, Shepard "flew" dozens of simulated missions without leaving the ground, learned to handle the controls with skill, and found out exactly what he could do to save himself if anything went wrong...
...investigator, Miss Anna Russell--every Gilbert and Sullivan director for the past half century has managed to save his show from complete collapse. As the dialogue becomes ever more insufferably insipid, and the music more desperately dull, (I phrase this in the style of Miss Russell) for God's sake...
...area" could indicate the long awaited end to the Government's acceptance of a second best role. However, unless this policy is implemented calmly and wisely by the new Space Council, headed by vice-President Johnson, it will mean the sacrifice of legitimate, if unspectacular, scientific goals for the sake of defense and propaganda...