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...take too long to supply. Its orders constantly changed Gemini 6's flight plan, pumped out new burn times, duration of burn, power of burn, direction of thrust. It was the computer, for example, that noticed the apogee was half a mile low and called for a tiny "tweak" burn at the second perigee. "During the rendezvous," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft proudly, "it gave us the right answers at the right time...
...elections later this year, Socialist Gaston Defferre, who was running for re-election as mayor of Marseille. But Defferre triumphed handsomely and proudly hailed his victory as a "stinging defeat" for that "historic personage" in Paris. It was hardly that. The nationwide results were really little more than a tweak of the De Gaulle nose. However inept as vote getters his minions may be, De Gaulle himself remains undisputably the most popular man in France and virtually a certain bet to succeed himself as President...
...through a decade of spectacular growth, Rorimer still prowls the museum like a bemused headmaster. Wearing ankle-high combat boots that go back to his Army days,* he roams the halls, wiping dust off display cases, bellowing "Please don't touch the art objects!" when kids tweak a sphinx's beard, or sternly lecturing an adult caressing a caryatid's curple: "That's 4,000 years old. If everyone who saw that had touched it, it wouldn't be here...
...then Nasser had also got word of the deal. Suddenly all the West German loans for Nasser's five-year plan and all the West German experts working on his rocket program were forgotten. Out came plans to tweak Bonn's nose by accepting the long-standing East German wish to pay a visit to Cairo. At first the West Germans spoke indignantly of breaking relations with Cairo and suspending financial aid. Nasser was unimpressed. He summoned German Ambassador Georg Federer, called the Israeli arms deal "most degrading" and "disgusting," and declared: "We have received no aid from...
With little support either inside or outside Cuba, the 275,000 Cuban exiles in the U.S. and around the Caribbean have long since ceased to pose a serious military threat to Fidel Castro. But they do manage to tweak the dictator's beard from time to time. The most successful of them seems to be Manuel Artime, 31, a leader of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion who heads an exile group calling itself the Revolutionary Recovery Movement. Last May, Artime's men blew up a sugar mill at Cabo Cruz on the south coast of Oriente province...