Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 of the Wasp," he said later. But he was obviously pleased to be back on earth. "Hooray! Hooray!" he cried. "We're going...
Reception. Just 57 minutes after hitting the water, McDivitt and White were landed by helicopter on the flight deck of the Wasp. More than a thousand sailors crowded around to cheer them. There had been fears that they would faint, or at least experience dizziness the first time they tried to walk. But both saluted the U.S. flag, then strode without a misstep along the red carpet that had been laid down for them...
...long period of physical inactivity, heightened by the absence of gravity, would make their hearts lazy and flabby, cause dizziness and fluttering of the heart when the men suddenly became active again. White, whose normal heartbeat is an unusually slow 50 per min., registered 96 while lying on the Wasp's examining table. When the table was tilted upright, his heartbeat spurted to almost 150 per min. Four days later it was still 70 to 80. But even that reaction was better than doctors had expected...
Straw Men. While in space, McDivitt lost four pounds and White, eight. But heavy eating aboard the Wasp changed that. By the time they arrived back in the U.S., each was a pound heavier than before Gemini 4's takeoff...
...outset, she is a normal, healthy little WASP who hums happily about her village. But in just a few weeks of slavery she develops most of the characteristics commonly adduced to denigrate U.S. Negroes. Treated as an inferior, she acquires a painful inferiority complex. She loathes herself for being white, and to punish herself she consorts with the filthiest white trash she can find. But even more than she loathes herself she hates the yellows, and to punish them she lies, cheats and steals...