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...Attorney General said that the "wide gap between the thinking of the leaders, so called, and the members" is the Republican Party's greatest problem. To revive the party, he indicated, it necessary to remove some of the GOP's leaders...
...first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21 p.m. E.S.T., during Gemini 8's third revolution over the Pacific, Armstrong reported: "Object in sight." There was the Agena, 76 miles ahead, its beacon flashing against the dark sky. After gradually closing the gap, Gemini 8 eased up and in front of the Agena, while swinging around so that it was flying backwards, 150 feet ahead of the target. "We are station keeping" (flying in formation), reported Armstrong at 5:40 p.m. America's second space rendezvous had been accomplished...
...nudged to within five feet of the Agena's nose, close enough for them to read a small, lighted instrument panel over the target craft's docking cone. Using his maneuvering stick, Armstrong fired a brief burst from two of Gemini's 100-lb. thrusters. The gap between Agena and the spacecraft closed at about six inches per second, until the craft gently bumped its nose into the docking cone...
...York University. N.Y.U. had been invited almost as an afterthought and had gratefully beaten every team it faced. But the streak could not go all the way, even when Brigham Young's All-America Dick Nemelka got sidelined by foul trouble. Forward Gary Hill filled the gap left by Nemelka by scoring 21 points, 13 more than his season average. The whole Brigham Young team played such thoughtful run-and-shoot basketball that, after its 97-84 win, Coach Stan Watts gleefully added two words to the frequently used description of the Cougars' style, making it "wild...
...report finds that despite signs of prosperity, "Europe still lags far behind the U.S., and in truth the gap-the real gap-is increasing." Thus even greater masses of money are going to be added to the $12 billion in American capital already invested in Europe...