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...emergence of the men from their capsule after 4½ months of weightlessness. But a preliminary checkup showed that the cosmonauts had withstood their ordeal well, keeping in shape with rigorous exercises and the use of vacuum suits that forced their blood to circulate as if they were standing upright on earth. Encouraged by the results, Flight Director Alexei Yeliseyev contended that the Soviets could now send out manned space expeditions of practically unlimited duration...
...name of the factory suburb on the outskirts of Cracow is as drab and anonymous as the upright slabs of apartments that crowd its barren hills: Nowa Huta-New Foundry. Conceived by the Polish Communist state as a counterweight to "reactionary" central Cracow, Nowa Huta is home to the giant, 35,000-employee Lenin Steelworks, one of the largest in Europe. As originally planned, the town was to have schools, shops, theaters, recreation halls and a hospital-but no church. The workers wanted one. After the anti-regime riots of 1956, they won grudging permission from the state to build...
Gary Bosnic failed to break the ice for Harvard when he shanked a tough 44-yd. field goal attempt on the following play. Bos did break the ice with 1:55 to go in the half, though, capping a 53-yd, drive with an upright-splitter from 30 yards...
...being a strong and effective leader and inspiring confidence-the very qualities on which Carter is ranked the lowest. On these questions of competence, Carter gets the top grades from less than 10% of those surveyed. The President, on the other hand, is considered to be strongly religious, morally upright, honest and a good family man-the areas where Kennedy ranks the lowest. About half of those polled, including 63% of the Democrats and 59% of those under 35, went so far as to say that Kennedy would make an "outstanding" President. Only 33% said he would be unacceptable...
Clouseau has the shrewdness of idiocy. He is driving his car. A gorgeous floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...