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...Cover) Tied to a capsule by a 16-ft. tether, the first human satellite whirled through the vacuum of space at 18,000 m.p.h...
Autonomous or Umbilical. Much more interesting than the air lock, though, was Leonov's space suit. One Russian commentator called it "autonomous," which means that it is independent of the spaceship except for a simple tether. The pictures do show cylinders on Leonov's back that probably held oxygen, but the cable attaching him to the spaceship was thick enough to contain a good-sized oxygen tube. It may be an umbilical cord supplying oxygen from the spaceship's tanks, besides carrying wires for communication and telemetering. The tube could also carry away carbon dioxide from Leonov...
...Short Tether. Significantly shifting the burden of proof to censors, Justice William J. Brennan ruled that "the exhibitor must be assured by statute or authoritative judicial construction that the censor will, within a specified brief period, either issue a license or go to court to restrain showing the film." As for the judicial part of the process, Brennan suggested that it should take no more than three or four days...
...Black concurred, but they wanted to go much further. "I would put an end to all forms and types of censorship and give full literal meaning to the command of the First Amendment," insisted Douglas. His brethren thought it was enough simply to put the censor on a shorter tether...
Another Ambition. Despite success in her chosen career, Sheilah Graham played her most satisfying role during the three years (1937-40) she spent in Hollywood with F. Scott Fitzgerald, then at the end of his tether. With Ghostwriter Gerold Frank, Miss Graham told that story in the bestselling Beloved Infidel (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958). "I was never a mistress," writes Miss Graham firmly in her current book, whose very title pays tribute to the depth of that experience. "I was a woman who loved Scott Fitzgerald for better or worse until he died...