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Only one mechanical bug marred the launch: the inboard engine of the Saturn rocket's second stage shut down two minutes prematurely. But the remaining four engines of the stage automatically compensated by firing 33 seconds longer than programmed, and the third-stage S-4B rocket burned an extra ten seconds to boost the spacecraft unerringly into earth orbit. Then, after 1½ revolutions of the earth, a five-minute blast from the S-4B sent the fifth U.S. manned lunar mission on a long glide toward the moon...
Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise...
Alfred sat panting, watching her, anxious eyebrows raised. Bug-eyed with terror at the crashing on before him. Afraid. Leery. Poor Alfred, he was a doubt-bound eastern mutt, so apprehensive. And smaller than Girl. Eensy teensy on the beach below...
Then let Mrs. F. take a "Bug" to the Volkswagen agency for service. What a difference. At the risk of sounding like a shill for VW, I have made the comparison. Never have I received anything but prompt, courteous and competent service at the dealers. The work is often covered by the warranty, and the bills are reasonable...
...beginning of interspecies communication; some dolphinhuman breakthroughs have been made on the sexual level. One guy who says he digs shit during sex occasionally says it's not the taste or texture. but a symbol that he's so far into sex that those things no longer bug him. Sado/masochism, when consensual, can be described as a highly artistic endeavor, a ballet the constraints of which are the thresholds of pain and pleasure...