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...shortage of ideas. Martin Marietta Corp. has proposed launching a piloted Gemini rescue spacecraft in tandem with an unmanned Gemini containing three seats. After the twin craft had rendezvoused with a disabled Apollo vehicle, for example, the three-man Apollo crew could transfer to the empty Gemini, detach it from the piloted rescue craft, and return to earth simply by firing their retrorockets...
...that sort of association, guilty by association, goes on, in other words, if your government does not detach itself from any responsibility in the military regime, there will be an identification of America with the destiny and the fate of the military regime. And then, of course, any candidate who run in a free election will run, for good or for worse, sincerely, hypocritically, or demagogically, on an anti-American platform. Which I think is very bad for us and eventually...
...race track and cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
...ventricle would be spared much of the strain under which it had labored. While it would not literally rest, it would have a chance to regain muscle tone and strength. That might take as long as three weeks. If everything worked out as hoped, Dr. DeBakey planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained in a coma. If he had suffered...