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...decisions of justice, whose task it is to interpret the Constitution without prejudice, are fundamentally different from those of a legislator, whose first responsibility is to his constituents. When Senators try, then, to assure that a Federal judge's opinions will mirror their own, they are attempting to blur the traditional line between legislative and judicial functions of the Government...
...heard the evidence and the arguments at the trial, he cannot make his decision at once in cases without a jury. Says Vanderbilt: "He will never know more about it than he does at that time. The moment for decision has arrived, before other cases intervene to dull and blur his grasp of the pending case...
...five seconds that they burned, they accelerated the sled with a force of 7½ to 9 Gs,* pressing him back against the sea with 7½ to 9 times the weight of his body For about 2½ seconds he could see the track as a racing blur. Then his vision narrowed and blacked out altogether. Since he did not lose consciousness, he knew that the Gs had drained the blood out of his eyeballs, but not out of his brain...
Specks of Blue. When the rocket burned out. the Gs died down to nothing The blackness in Stapp's eyes turned briefly to yellow, and like a fleeting vision he caught a glimpse of the world. It was gone in a blur of salmon-colored light a the water brake took hold and powerful deceleration forces, up to 35 Gs, slammed him against his belts...
...eyes were being pulled out of my head-about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is being yanked an you feel the roots begin to give. I had great difficulty breathing because of the tightness of my chest strap. When the sle stopped, the salmon blur was still there." As a medical man, Stapp knew that th Gs had pulled his eyeballs outward an "impinged them against the eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas had-been detached (which would have made him permanently blind). "After the sled stopped...