Word: vehicular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ethical Example. Unlike other police, C.D. men win points for making as few arrests as possible. To give errants every possible chance, a C.D. man first politely announces: "You are interfering with the free movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Please move." (Pause.) "Will you move?" Step 2: the resister is told that his act violates Section 406 of the Pennsylvania penal code and "amounts to disorderly conduct." Once more he is asked, "Will you move?" Step 3: "You are now under arrest. Will you walk to the emergency patrol wagon?" Step 4: "Do you want to be carried...
Gemini's finale and Astronaut Aldrin's record-breaking total of 5 hrs. 36 min. of EVA (extra vehicular activity) relieved NASA officials of the nagging fear that they had overestimated man's ability to work in space. During two stand-up photographic sessions through his open hatch and a 129-minute "space walk," Aldrin experienced none of the difficulties encountered during earlier EVAs. He completed his assigned tasks without becoming overheated or exhausted...
Spanish checkpoint on the border. Last week Spain dealt the colony the cruelest jab yet. At the border, Spanish police swung two heavy iron gates across the road and turned a key in a rusty padlock, halting all vehicular traffic and overland trade between Gibraltar and the mainland...
...Wertham, "we are the victims of the hydrogen bomb before it is ever used," because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide. Tobacco and alcohol advertising, he believes, also teach a subtle disregard for human welfare, as does the U.S. acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...
Spectacular Views. Engineers remain stumped over what pungent substance irritated the crew's eyes during Collins' first EVA (extra vehicular activity). One new suggestion is that urine somehow invaded the breathing lines, but the Gemini 10 spacemen quickly vetoed that theory, insisting that the eye-swelling fumes were in no way similar to urine. One guess now is that the special antifog mist wiped on both space-suit visors prior to the EVA reacted chemically with particles of lithium hydroxide (used to purify the astronauts' breathing system...