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Into Exile. Don Juan often escapes the formality that is thrust upon him by his birth. At sea, he does his turn on deck with the crew; he normally wears faded dungarees and sneakers ashore in brief stops at foreign ports. At home in Estoril, he often drops in at bars for a beer or two, touring the tables to greet acquaintances. Now and then he goes to nightclubs, chats with friends until the small hours. He was not born to be a king, for he was only the third son of weak, dissolute Alfonso XIII. His eldest brother...
...present the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to reach the moon by earth orbital rendezvous (EOR)-an effort that will require two advanced Saturn boosters, each with 6,600,000 Ibs. of thrust. One rocket will carry the crew and its Apollo capsule and place it in an orbit around the earth. The second will bring up the fuel, rocket engines and other gear needed for the remainder of the earth-moon trip. The two payloads will rendezvous on orbit and prepare for departure for the moon. If preliminary tests make this system look too difficult. Webb proposes...
Teddy blared into town behind a crack brass band to find a prearranged crowd, replete with pretty girl workers, awaiting him outside the hotel. Pulled up on a sound truck, Teddy began to speak-and his chopping gestures, his thrust-out chin, his flat inflections and staccato cadences were more than slightly familiar...
Into the Vacuum. But so far, Rockefeller seems to have weathered his divorce well. And recently, quite independently of his own efforts, he has been thrust into the vacuum in national leadership that plagues either U.S. political party when it does not hold the White House. Nixon, the G.O.P.'s "titular leader," has in recent weeks run into trouble in California and, despite last week's primary victory, faces a hard struggle for survival in his fight against Governor Pat Brown. Goldwater, who seemed for a while to be a hopeful G.O.P. prospect, has been hobbled...
Less than 24 hours earlier, the chartered jet was roaring down the Orly runway on takeoff. Unaccountably, it failed to lift. The pilot jammed down on the brakes, threw the powerful engines into reverse thrust. But the speed and momentum were too great. The plane rocketed ahead, plowed through a fence, grazed a house, and smashed to pieces in a fiery cloud, killing eight French crew members and 122 passengers. Miraculously, two stewardesses were thrown clear...