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Gibson's coaching is gradually molding some strong units from the good material on the team. The decisive question in the team's future is when the individual skiers will hit their stride...
...unassuming motto of the Corps of Engineers is Essayons (Let's try)-an injunction they heeded with distinction in the tropics of the South Pacific and the frozen hills of Korea. Now they are learning to take the sands and swamps of South Viet Nam in stride. As an instructor at Fort Belvoir put it last week: "A bridge is a bridge wherever you build it. If you can build it one place, you can build it another...
Last week, out of a cast again but still wearing a brace, Larsen could move his foot and walk with only a moderate hitch in his stride. He insists that he will soon be playing tennis again. As to why there had been no prompt report of the surgical feat, Dr. Byers says: "In 1962, I didn't know that it hadn't been done before, and the job wasn't complete until the patient could move his toes...
...Kaltman, a blonde, fiftyish divorcée of formidably efficient mien and determined stride, whacked cuisine costs by making René use frozen foods (a "very lousy" thing in the White House, he complained). That was the beginning of the end. The end came ever closer when she also insisted on pointing out her favorite recipes in a well-thumbed copy of the Gourmet Cookbook. "I have a master pastry chef who has been doing these things for 40 years," muttered the disconsolate chef. "You just don't open the cookbook to page 40 and stick it under...
...room couch at lift-off and was still jumping up and down an hour later. Marilyn Lovell, expecting her fourth child soon, was also in high spirits. "I'm just stopping by on my way to the hospital," she joked. Jo Schirra tried to take the excitement in stride, sent her two children to school after Gemini 6's blastoff. But the following morning, when Schirra stepped aboard the Wasp, Jo Schirra admitted that she had found "every bit" of the mission exciting. The flawless recovery, she said, was "even more than I expected...