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James E. Cunningham, 34, a Cleveland-born electronics engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc., who attracts attention as an especially conscientious juror by the way he sits bolt upright in the jury...
Cardinal Cushing began his dissonant, yet moving, intonation of the Mass: "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon him." Suddenly Charles de Gaulle stood upright, facing the altar. He was joined by Emperor Selassie and King Baudouin, and the three chiefs of state stood alone, erect and rigid. Later, because it was a Kennedy favorite, the third chapter of Ecclesiastes was read-almost in monotone-by the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington: "There is an appointed time for everything ... a time to be born, and a time...
Operational A-3s will start coming off the line next February, and by then most U.S. nuclear submarines will be equipped to launch them. With 16 long-range A-3s standing upright in their waists, the subs will be able to keep to the deep, safe, open ocean, while their full deterrent is still zeroed in on potential troublemakers...
...hand's only score came on a fine 55-yard field goal attempt by George Gagolok. Referee Pete Milium, however, ruled that only two-thirds of the football had passed inside the left upright and awarded the band its only two points of the afternoon...
...Haunting. A young woman in a filmy nightie sits bolt upright in bed. Bump. Bump. BUMP. BUMP. The noise comes from the corridor outside her room. Huge feet run past, run back, stop at the bedroom door. Silence. Something is listening. The young woman stares in alarm. Then softly a big body rubs against the door and at the crack beneath it snuffles a gigantic spectral snout. The young woman clutches her throat and-BANG! BANG! BANG...