Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...going to be more so. Both presidential candidates sat confined in the Senate chambers last week, eager to be somewhere else, and they were getting away whenever they could from a congressional rump session increasingly vituperative and unproductive. August is usually the quiet month when the candidates organize the fall's storms. But already the campaign was taking shape, and an unexpected...
...level), higher than any human being had ever soared before in nonpowered flight. Shortly after 7 a.m., Kittinger ticked off his go-second countdown in radio communication with the ground. Then he "asked the Lord for help," flopped over the side of the gondola, and began his long fall - nearly 20 miles...
Down, Down, Down. Within 18 seconds, Kittinger's stabilizing chute opened, but for more than four minutes more he plummeted in free fall, reaching a velocity of 614 m.p.h. "I fell on my right side for about eight seconds," he says. "Then I found myself on my back watching the balloon recede above me. The sky was almost black. It was a beautiful thing to see. I had a sensation of lying still while the balloon raced away from me. I didn't feel hot or cold, just the right temperature. There was very little spinning...
Last May the federal district court in New Orleans ordered public schools in Orleans Parish-New Orleans and vicini ty-to integrate their first grades this fall. To get around the ruling, Davis' legislature passed laws vesting in itself the sole authority to reclassify the state's white and Negro schools, and empowering the Governor to seize schools to prevent any court-directed integration. Under those provisions, Davis last week, by executive order, took personal control of Orleans Parish schools and authorized Su perintendent James F. Redmond, as the Governor's "agent," to open schools...
...Fall Down, by James Leo Herlihy. A fresh, warm, Salingering description of a hooky-playing 14-year-old, his ne'er-do-well older brother and their offbeatnik parents...