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Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 replied that Burke had been confined to his house and that Healy was legitimately the acting city clerk. "Then who is acting manager?" asked Vellucci. "The City Clerk," replied Crane...
...acting City Manager when the Manager was out of state for two a couple of weeks ago?" Vellucci asked. Crane replied again that it was Burke, the City Clerk...
Bright Sun, Black Sky. At T minus 3, the "cherry picker" escape crane drew slowly away from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus 30 seconds the "umbilical cord" of tubing and cables that had been supplying electricity, communication and liquid oxygen fell free. At 9:34 a.m. the last second ticked...
...education," says another. The most impressive result is a new willingness to keep studying after graduation. On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton...