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...easier to record what had gone right. Agena and Atlas had separated on schedule, and a secondary engine had fired to stabilize the Agena and ensure that the fuel was positioned correctly in the tanks. Then the primary engine, capable of 16,000 lbs. of thrust, was supposed to kick Agena into a 185-mile-high orbit around the earth. But already ground control was receiving the first ominous signals. In the tank that stored the rocket's oxidizer, pressure was racing up above the red danger line...
...also somewhat disappointing that your report made no reference to the main thrust of my remarks, which contrasted Latin American realities with various stereotypes widely held in academic and journalistic circles in the United States. They included the stereotype of uniformity contrasted with reality of heterogeneity; the prevailing structure of social classes and the needed types of change; the opportunities for modernizing revolutions in contrast to violent social revolutions; the political options other than dictatorships of left or right or simon-pure liberal democracy; the nature of the 1964 Brazilian revolution and the Castello Branco regime; and the viability...
...ball with any consistency against a good defensive line. The loss of Harvard tackle Steve Diamond will impair the Crimson's attack even further. John McCluskey's passing has been improving slowly, but it is not so good that Harvard can count on him to supply much offensive thrust...
...thrust and direction of the prodigious 89th Congress were set by Lyndon Johnson in two speeches. Before a University of Michigan audience at Ann Arbor on May 22, 1964, the President called on the nation to "create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities." In his State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in Washington last Jan. 4, he defined his own soaring dreams of what American life should be. "Our nation," he said then, "was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery...
...South Pacific), discovered that the main action in almost every play took place in a triangle whose base rested on the footlights. Mielziner and Saarinen boldly flipped the triangle so that it was pointing out into the audience, thus doubling the prime acting area available. When the extra thrust stage is not wanted, it can be lowered into the pit so that the theater reverts to traditional form...