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...strictly forbidden, but I can tell you how it was done. Stand facing either the east or west gate (the method worked for both). Place your left foot between the wrought-iron bars directly over the lock, pull yourself up by holding the topmost spikes firmly with both hands, swing your right foot into one of the iron rings at the top of the gate, bring your left leg up and around, and you're home. That's all there was to it, in terms of the how. As for the why, I am not sure...
While Young's copilot, Air Force Major Brewster Shaw, took charge, one of three inertial measuring units, which sense any changes in the spacecraft's speed or direction, mysteriously broke down. In addition, the laws of celestial mechanics added a political problem. Each extra swing around the earth changed Columbia's path. As a result, when the ship swooped out of its last orbit, instead of coming in south of Australia and over the western Pacific, it passed only 80 miles above eastern Siberia in the militarily sensitive area of the Sakhalin Peninsula where Soviet aircraft shot...
...shuttle's cargo bay. To their surprise, despite several minutes of huffing and pulling, the door refused to budge. Not until the muscle power of the entire six-man crew, the largest group ever to fly in space, was applied to the balky hatch did it finally swing open, permitting the astronauts to enter their $1 billion orbital laboratory...
...spotless finery. As a Mercedes six-door limousine ferried the royal visitors through the chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...
Jane Fonda or any of those others, how can the women out there?" Set to the strain-free strains of Switched on Swing, Reynolds' entry into the market is geared for the 40-plus cellulite set-"Call them 39 and holding," she says politely. To help illustrate her way of holding, a few of the actress's chums, including Teri Garr, Virginia Mayo, Jaye P. Morgan, Rose Marie and Shelley Winters showed up to film part of the video. For the plumpish Winters, even Reynolds' laid-back style of lard burning prompted a display of distress. "Shelley...