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...Skip Rope Outside. By managing to secure the Dacron tether between the Agena and Gemini 11 before abandoning his space walk, Gordon had set the stage for the most spectacular of Gemini's maneuvers. On the third day of the flight, Conrad undocked Gemini and used his thrusters to back slowly away from the Agena until the 100-ft. rope was taut between them. As soon as the thrusters were shut off, however, both ships began to gyrate erratically, the rope oscillating between them. "It's like the Agena and I have got a skip rope between...
...Torrance section of Los Angeles has been such a success that he is now putting up two more apartment houses with pads for singles only. "Generally, the apartment business developers weren't building for them and the landlords distrusted them, sure they would damage the place or skip the rent...
Only in the painting category did the seven-member international jury, representing six European nations, give the top nod to something beyond the pale look of art already seen. Argentina's Le Pare, 37, won the $3,225 grand international prize for his motorized op-skip-and-jump works, which bobble and bounce ping-pong balls behind eye-boggling Plexiglas screens. A nonplused, partisan pop dealer could only remark that Le Fare's art reminded him of "F.A.O. Schwarz on the 23rd of December." Le Pare was just as much amazed when he heard of his win, while...
...tornado struck directly at Burnett's Mound. Then, in contrast with the hop-and-skip progression of most twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...
...rallied 131 points in the final hour of trading, closing at 903. Actually, General Motors said only that its plants would work Monday but was obscure about whether they would work full weeks. Later, G.M. said that eight of its assemby plants, rather than the previously announced four, will skip between one day's and three days' work before the end of this month...