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Rocket and bright balloon climbed through space together, the balloon appearing to grow smaller as it forged ahead. As the pair of space travelers passed their apogee (922 miles) and fell faster and faster toward the earth, the balloon appeared to shrink to a bright speck. Tracked by the following camera, the big silver sphere hit the fringes of the atmosphere and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The show ended a few moments later when the rocket and TV camera also burned...
...years, then get out of the price-support business completely and permanently. For wheat and a few other oversupply crops, the cut in price would be so great that growers would suffer too drastic a drop in income; for these farmers. C.E.D. proposes temporary "income protection" subsidies, which would shrink year by year and come to an end altogether after five years...
...than on substance. And even though he was trying to hold out a hand of friendship to U.S. business, he could not resist a threat of the sort that has so shaken business confidence. "If a contest in angry argument were forced upon it." he said, "no Administration could shrink from response, and history does not suggest that American Presidents are totally without resources in an engagement forced upon them because of hostility in one sector of the society." Such talk served only to broaden the gulf between the President and "them."' And that certainly was not what...
...weeks or months after the original operation before they attempt the job. The M.G.H. surgeons identified the three main nerve bundles in Ev Knowles's shoulder and arm, drew them together, and rejoined each with a single dacron stitch-a holding operation so that the nerves will not shrink...
...with neighborhood boys, skipped rope with schoolgirls. Attendance at the three Sunday services he conducts now is seldom less than 400. The number of children enrolled in the church school has risen from 20 to 200-kids who in their scrubbed smiles and neat clothes would not have to shrink from comparison with the St. John's Sunday-school children of 50 years...