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Workaday Fatalism. Sixteen times the U.S. has rocketed men far into space without so much as a stubbed-toe casualty. There had been the heart-stopping suspense of Alan Shepard's first flat-arc flight in 1961, the terrifying uncertainty of John Glenn's reentry into the atmosphere in a heat-seared Mercury craft in 1962, and Gus Grissom's hairbreadth escape from drowning when his Liberty Bell 7 was swamped in the Atlantic. Then came the miraculously flawless series of ten Gemini trips, in which Americans repeatedly broke all records for survival in space, strolled blithely...
Gallagher was hurt in the Crimson's heartbreaking defeat at the University of Arizona. The 6'-5" forward broke a toe and is not expected to be back in action until February...
...Toe in Paraffin. Elizabeth was a dynamic perfectionist. She could spend months sniffing half a dozen sachets a day in order to find "the most wonderful smell in the world," and insisted on having the bows on packages retied again and again until they reached the exact, proper tilt. Since very few mortals were capable of her degree of dedication, the turnover among Arden employees was a byword in Manhattan career circles; but her exacting policies made great sense to her customers. Inside her salons (now numbering 50 in 33 countries), she similarly tried to perfect the Total Woman-physically...
...feels, is shortchanging the vital, reportorial aspect of journalism. "The networks," he says, "including my own, do a first-rate job of disseminating the news, but all of them have third-rate news-gathering organizations. We are still basically dependent on the wire services. We have barely dipped our toe into investigative reporting...
Baker reported to trainning camp with a sprained ankle, and yesterday ran gamely, but limply. Stempson infected his toe the day before the meet and couldn't compete. On top of that, Dick Howe, who was figured to be in the top three for Harvard, came up with a stitch in his side halfway through the race and finished on guts alone...