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Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...
Cavanagh is also an all-American hockey player within reach of the all-time Harvard scoring record. He isn't conceited, and he plays cleanly. He is Chip Hilton and Brone Burnett, he is a fourth-grader's dream come true...
Jackson is well-acquainted with the problems of poor blacks. He was born in Greenville, S.C. where his father was a cotton grader who lived next door to his mother but was married to someone else. The fact that other black kids with "socalled legitimate beginnings" teased him. Jackson recalls, made him determined to succeed. His mother later married a janitor, and young Jesse often accompanied him on his night duties. One office his stepfather cleaned belonged to a Greenville lawyer named Clement Haynsworth...
...acting like a fifth-grader...
Most white students were cautious but resigned. "We have to put up with it," said Tommy Miller, a white ninth-grader at the formerly all-black N. D. Taylor High School. Nor were all the blacks enthusiastic about the change. "I would still rather be at Taylor," said Wallace Kohn, a black senior at the city high school. "I had my privileges there." But both blacks and whites seemed determined to make the best of the situation. "There were too many colored kids," said Ninth-Grader Denise Richards after her first day at Taylor. "I'm going...