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...escape and drift around the tunnel interior. During Apollo's eleventh revolution, as Stafford and Cernan prepared to undock Snoopy for its descent toward the moon, the astronauts found that they could not depressurize the connecting tunnel. The drifting fiber glass had clogged a ¼in. tunnel vent. If something was not done, ground controllers feared, the unvented pressure might impart too much velocity to Snoopy as it undocked...
...agencies now became intensely antagonistic towards these agencies, and began acting out spasmodic revolts in the streets. The agents of this transformation were middle-class reformers (variously characterized as from New York, "liberal-radical," and Jewish) who were beginning to use the frustrations of the poor in order to vent their won hostility towards American society. The result was conspicuous turmoil, destructive infighting among basically pro-poor forces, and worst of all, a rise in the sense of disorder and chaos which Moynihan sees as the problem most troubling to the non-poor majority of Americans today...
...came last October when Catholic marchers paraded within Londonderry's Old Walls, a Unionist shrine. Convinced that the protesters had overstepped all bounds, Protestant bigots soon began organizing counterdemonstrations. Their spokesman was fiery Ian Paisley, leader of the extremist Free Presbyterian Church, who rarely misses an opportunity to vent his rabidly anti-Catholic views. He refers to the Roman Catholic church as "the greatest dictatorship in the world," and his newspaper has come up with the singular suggestion that the Viet Nam war is a Jesuit conspiracy...
...argues Bayard Rustin, is the victim of the Negro's love-hate syndrome; the black man tends to vent his anger and frustration on those who have helped him most. The Jew has contributed far more to the cause of civil rights than the gentile. Partly, Jewish liberalism toward the Negro was a product of self-interest: if the Negro could be repressed, then so could Jews. But the Jewish willingness to help others also stems from the abiding generosity of the Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments...
...friends. Aunt Jackie had flown from New York. Uncle Ted and Aunt Joan were there. So were the Charles Percys, George McGoverns, Robert McNamaras and Mike Mansfields. But the young lady who was the focus of attention had missed her nap; she ignored the distinguished company and gave vent to lusty cries until she was soothed by her mother and her new godparents, Michael Kennedy, 10, and Mary Kennedy, 9. With calm restored, Ethel Kennedy stood aside to watch New York Archbishop Terence Cooke christen one-month-old Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's eleventh child...