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...first it was only a tiny speck in the sky. Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9's orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever sent into orbit. Said Scott: "You're the biggest, friendliest, funniest-looking spider I've ever seen." He was talking to the lunar module, known as Spider, and it bore two other astronauts who had earlier left Scott to guide it through space. By flying their ship through orbital maneuvers designed to simulate those to be used by astronauts returning from...
...Donald Albanito, a juror in the 1967 murder trial of Mass Murderer Richard Speck, spent four weeks cooped up in the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria, Ill. Albanito, head of the business faculty at Peoria's Bradley University, said the jurors became so bored that they spent long hours idly gazing out hotel windows. When a bailiff ordered one man to close his window, reports Albanito, the edgy juror shouted at him: "If you so much as touch that damn window, I'll throw a chair right through...
...other than God himself, posing this time as a wise, lovable friend to the mad and the innocent. Robson's message is that they would be just as well off without him. Indifferent to their suffering, he shuffles on backward, blinking at sunbeams and thinking thoughts like: "Each speck was a world just like ours and our world was only another speck dancing in someone else's old barn...
California was not the only state to uphold the death penalty last week, turning down an appeal from Richard Speck, who was convicted last year of stabbing and strangling eight nurses to death in a Chicago dormitory, the Illinois Supreme Court denied that Speck's death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. It also rebuffed his attorneys' efforts to prove that Speck was not sane at the time of the murders and that opponents of the death penalty had been rejected as jurors when the jury was picked for his trial...
...gentle, uncomplaining people of Bikini did not protest the decision to take their atoll away from them, perhaps forever. When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel. "If the U.S. Government needs to use our houses for the goodness of mankind," Juda decided, "then by the kindness of God we are willing...