Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Caution. In Cleveland, arrested 13 times in 14 days for speeding (4), passing red lights (2), driving on the wrong side of the street (3), driving against traffic on a one-way street (3), and making an improper turn (1), J. D. Grant confidently told a judge: "Sure, I crash red lights-but I always look both ways...
There are the malcontents, who would flock tc anything new; some are malcontents for the "right reasons," others are upset over the wrong things. "We try to keep away from this latter group completely," Bullitt says. "Most of all we want active students who want something from the House and who are willing to put a lot in in return...
...Come On Out, Son." Next day Chicago dazedly, sadly, tried to find out what had gone wrong. Known point was that the second-floor fire doors had been left open, making a flue for the flames. Not known was how the fire had started at the foot of the stair well itself. A cigarette tossed into wastepaper in the basement? Spontaneous combustion...
...launch looked good. But lack of further reports made veteran "birdwatchers" sense that something had gone slightly wrong. Later that night came confirmation : Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Army's top space man, admitted that Juno II had missed perfection by a thin but sufficient hairbreadth. It was still climbing, but not climbing fast enough to get near the moon...
Orbit Geography. The Discoverers will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Florida's Cape Canaveral has the wrong geography for polar orbits. If a satellite launcher is aimed either north or south from the cape, it must pass over densely populated areas while still in the dangerous early stages of its flight. The nearest land south of Vandenberg is the Pitcairn Island group in the South Pacific, more than 4,000 miles away...