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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considerable pressure to bear, but the cake still would not cut. Luci cried, "I quit," but Pat suggested trying the fifth layer. The knife finally cut through, and Pat submitted to the bridegroom's traditional cake-eating indignity. Before the couple made their farewells and departed on an unknown honeymoon about 6:45 p.m., Luci made a last speech from the south balcony, then tossed her bouquet. It wound up, with a little sisterly collusion, in the possession of Lynda Bird, whose escort at the wedding was Actor George Hamilton. "Thank you all," said Luci, "for this beautiful, wonderful...
...About your Essay on Privacy [July 15]: solitude without loneliness is available to all who seek it. It is a question not of where but of when. That brief period in the morning from dawn until everybody wakes up offers a new and different world unknown to most of us-serene yet vibrant, peaceful yet alive, free of the hostilities of the strange or the pressures of the familiar...
Brute-Force Buttonhook. The fuel problem arose during Gemini 10's tricky fourth-orbit rendezvous with Agena 10. To determine the final thrust required for the interception, Young and Collins used data from the on-board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the system produced a figure nearly 7 ft. per sec. greater than the figure radioed up from ground control. When Collins' own slide-rule tabulation agreed with the spacecraft guidance system, Command Pilot Young chose to go with the double-checked on-board answer...
Pandora's Box. An unknown aboriginal people built the washboard-like excavations possibly more than 1,000 years ago, using only the crudest implements, without benefit of metal tools or draft animals. Their motive remains a mystery, although some speculate that the shallow channels lying between the ridges may have carried water to or from grain or root crops grown on top of the long mounds...
...Gogh would have missed out on a rating of the top ten of his time (at the time of his death he was virtually unknown), but cultural polls have their points. Every five years, France's Connaissance des Arts polls connoisseurs with the question, "Who are the ten living painters whom you prefer today?" The 86 replies from a mostly European group of critics, curators, dealers and historians yielded more than 200 names. The result was actually the top 13, since No. 1 was declared hors concours and there were two ties. The list...