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White was as honed for space as any astronaut could hope to be. The son of a retired Air Force major general, he once recalled that his father took him on his first airplane ride when he "was barely old enough to strap on a parachute," let him take the controls as soon as they were airborne. White naturally gravitated to West Point, graduated in 1952, earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, became a jet pilot. He married a petite blonde he met on a West Point football weekend; they...
Misfortune almost struck again in the final race as the hiking strap broke, dropping Underwood into the water. The game but wet senior clambered back on board in time to come in three boats ahead of the B.U. Challenger...
...oscillating Dacron tether while the earth swings dizzyingly below. Gradually, as Command Pilot Pete Conrad fires short blasts of his thrusters, the two ships settle down into stable rotation. The tether stretches taut between them. Frames taken after the tether is cut loose show the long Dacron strap winding in haphazard fashion around Agena...
...Buck Rogers-like, jet-propelled Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (TIME, Nov. 26). Initial plans called for Aldrin to emerge from his hatch and work his way back to the AMU, stowed in Gemini's equipment section. After snapping the AMU's chairlike arms into place, he was to strap himself in and then jet about in space, connected to Gemini by a 125-ft. safety tether...
...three defendants and other Klansmen: they plotted to terrorize Negroes throughout the Athens area. Earlier in 1964, police officials testified, Sims pistol-whipped an elderly Negro. A Negro garage attendant told of being set upon at about the same time by 18 hooded Klansmen and beaten with a strap by one whom he made out to be Sims. On another occasion, a witness related, shots were fired at a Negro apartment building from three carloads of whites, Turner and Myers among them. Taking the witness stand, Negro John Klink dramatically removed his sunglasses and showed the jury his right...