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...down," gasped that grand old daredevil Ray Harroun, as he clambered from his Marmon Wasp after winning the first Indianapolis 500 at an average speed of 74.59 m.p.h. Not finding any place else to sit, Harroun climbed back into his car and nearly fainted dead away...
...WASP Product. New York's great blackout in November had been caused by a mechanical failure; the transit strike was caused by a failure of communication, of understanding and of reason. It was basically the product of a bitter, and partially symbolic, conflict between...
...other protagonist was articulate, patrician John V. Lindsay, 44, a WASP product of the Ivy League and the winner of four terms as Congressman from Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, who took over as the city's first Republican mayor in 20 years the week the strike began. Quill's unconcealed enmity toward Lindsay was partially a product of their sharply different backgrounds, but it stemmed largely from the new mayor's unmistakable determination to bring a semblance of order and responsibility into the city's labor relations-a determination that Quill...
...that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston docking simulator, and his nearly on-target splashdown near the carrier Wasp were reminiscent of his first space flight. In 1962 Schirra flew a near-perfect mission in the Mercury capsule Sigma 7, landing only four miles from the recovery carrier in the Pacific...
...also in high spirits. "I'm just stopping by on my way to the hospital," she joked. Jo Schirra tried to take the excitement in stride, sent her two children to school after Gemini 6's blastoff. But the following morning, when Schirra stepped aboard the Wasp, Jo Schirra admitted that she had found "every bit" of the mission exciting. The flawless recovery, she said, was "even more than I expected...