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Soviet TV did not show any live pictures of the touchdown on a plain in Kazakhstan or the wobbly emergence of the men from their capsule after 4½ months of weightlessness. But a preliminary checkup showed that the cosmonauts had withstood their ordeal well, keeping in shape with rigorous exercises and the use of vacuum suits that forced their blood to circulate as if they were standing upright on earth. Encouraged by the results, Flight Director Alexei Yeliseyev contended that the Soviets could now send out manned space expeditions of practically unlimited duration...
Ever since 1689, when its Protestant citizens cried "No surrender!" and withstood a 105-day siege by the Catholic armies of James II, the city of Londonderry has been the symbol of Protestant triumph and Catholic humiliation. For nearly three centuries after the siege, Catholic residents of the city were forbidden by custom to live within Derry's six-foot-thick, lichen-green stone walls; the "Catholic area" was a nearby swamp appropriately called Bogside. Nor were Catholics?even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When...
When they are confronted with such a situation, scientists are often inclined to toss out the suspect equations, along with the physical theories underlying them. Yet general relativity has withstood many other tests since it was devised by Einstein more than half a century ago, and more and more scientists believe that the evidence in the skies is rapidly piling up in favor of the reality of black holes...
...Jeremiah used a code word for Babylon. Julius Caesar often encrypted his messages by substituting letters three places farther on in the alphabet, i.e. D replaces A; E replaces B. But no matter how clever they may have been, the codes of antiquity-or of more recent times-rarely withstood the efforts of skilled code breakers. Mary Queen of Scots was ordered beheaded after Queen Elizabeth's chief spy intercepted and decoded Mary's letters, which revealed that she was plotting against Elizabeth. In World War II, the U.S. victory in the Pacific and the defeat...
...final analysis, this election has the potential for being the hottest senatorial race in the nation this year. Ravenel is hoping to inject dynamism into South Carolina politics--a force not present in decades. He faces a man representing the emotional, "gut" reactions that have withstood the test of several decades of politics. The clash is a significant one, for Ravenel is calling upon South Carolinians to question their automatic and often impulsive assumptions about the state and the nation...