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...here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute eight feet in diameter billowed out to stabilize the spinning craft, and at 10,600 ft. the white-and-orange main chute, 84 ft. across, blossomed like a giant marigold to waft the 3.5-ton craft gently to sea. Some 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 53 miles from the waiting aircraft carrier Wasp, the capsule plopped into the Atlantic. McDivitt was disappointed that it was not a bull's-eye. "I wanted to land on the after-elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Toward the Moon | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...York's Senatorial seat is mobbed at every campaign stop. Crowds turn out in extraordinarily large numbers for his rallies and tours. Shricks of "I touched him. I touched him" are left in his wake as a dozen policemen wedge him through frenzied mobs. Murmurs of adoration waft after him as he shakes hands through a formal dinner gathering in a hotel ballroom. ("Why didn't you kiss him, Gale?" "Mmm, I would have loved to.") Whispers of suspicion follow his speech to a middle class suburban audience: a man turns to his wife and cautions, "Just remember, that...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: A Subdued RFK Plays to Huge Crowds | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

SMELL-O-VISION MOVIE, produced by Mike Todd Jr. at cost of $2,000,000, will be premiered in Chicago by Christmas, then play at 25 to 40 U.S. movie houses, 40 abroad. Called Scent of Mystery, first film will come with machine to waft 40 smells to each seat in theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Orbit to Orbit. Once free from the earth, the space sailer would fall into a solar orbit, use sunlight to waft it almost anywhere in the solar system. For such maneuvering it would need a way to change its sail's angle to the sunlight; Dr. Cotter believes that this can be done by gyroscopic devices that act in response to radio signals from the earth. With its sail broadside to the light, it will be pushed farther and farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trade Wind in Space | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...long last, dreamboat Private Elvis Presley was at sea. But before a military transport could waft him (along with 1,382 other G.I.s) to his truck-driving trick in West Germany, there was time at the dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to one and all (to be sold commercially), and drawl a quote or two for 100 waiting newsmen. Brightly confessing that his ideal girl was "female," Elvis showed why as he leaned down to give an impassioned fan a farewell nuzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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