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...complete system to back it. Like other systems, the engine had duplicate parts made to take over if its tanks, valves or propellant lines failed. But space and weight limitations had forced the manufacturer, Aerojet-General Corp., to include only a single combustion chamber, fuel injector and nozzle extension skirt (see illustration). The failure of any of these parts could have meant disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Little Engine that Could--and Did | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Brown cut velvet skirt with straps Custom fashions Imported shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

Soft firelight, beautiful girl in an at-home long poodle skirt, vest, and shirt. We also have our own holiday dresses, cuddly Icelandic Sheepskins, Indian mirror-encrusted vests, bronze vases, Mexican paper flowers, puzzles, beautiful jewelry, Tang horses, Sari scarves and lots, lots more. Happy Holidays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

Still, those eyes often have little to do with the law: A white girl, blonde and well-dressed, with a leather skirt and wonderful white thighs surging underneath, stands tall on the stand in front of the court. She looks back at the spectators over her shoulder with one eye, brushing her hair back. It is the coldest look I have ever seen. The old man across the aisle says, "Goddam long hair, has to keep it out of her eyes." He wants her too. Her parents, squat and ugly, a mother with a loaf of bread for a head...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A Day in Court | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

...that is it--there is no one in this court to help anyone else. We are all alone against the unreasoning command of the eyes. Someone else is crying, a whole family--the fattest woman I have ever seen, her daughters dressed in vinyl shoes, a three dollar skirt, and hair that was set the night before (she set it the night before to look neat when she went to court). The son, the brother has been sentenced for possessing a revolver; bail is $5000. He has a record that it took the court attendant five minutes to read...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A Day in Court | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

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