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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time, there were about twenty bundles of that last edition of the Resistance newspaper piled amid the fallen partitions in the back of the office. The last time I had been there, I had apportioned myself exactly 50 to sell. I had counted them over twice...
...ever actually assembled, a convention would ostensibly concern itself only with the so-called Dirksen amendment, which has been defeated twice in the Senate. The measure would reverse the court decision and permit election of one house of a bicameral state legislature on a basis other than population. Trouble is, there is nothing in the Constitution to limit such a convention to a single issue. As Ev Dirksen himself acknowledges, delegates might begin to rewrite the national charter...
...reach into the vacuum chamber holding the lunar rocks and equipment cracked, causing air to rush into the chamber. Two technicians, exposed to lunar material, were quickly placed in quarantine, at least until the astronauts get a clean bill of health. The plumbing presented a more familiar problem. Twice a urinal backed up in an unquarantined section of the spanking new $15.8 million lab. That caused a full day's delay in experiments...
...could it be the only one to contain life? Newton, Huygens and Voltaire all speculated on the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the solar system, even on the sun itself. The 18th century astronomer, Johann Elert Bode, author of Bode's Law (each planet is roughly twice as far from the sun as the previous one), insisted that spiritual values increased similarly with the distance from the sun. That would make Martians considerably more spiritual than earthlings...
...seems unlikely that the council will pass the ordinance at that time, since they have twice refused a request from the Cambridge Housing Convention to pass a similar rent control bill...