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Another tragedy that could occur during Apollo 8 Flight Director Clifford Charlesworth calls the mission's "longest hour." If, after completion of Apollo's tenth lunar revolution, the SPS engine fails to ignite or burns for too short a time, the astronauts would be stranded in orbit without any chance of rescue; they could live only until their oxygen supply was gone. To minimize the possibility of SPS failure, NASA has made nearly all of the engine's components redundant. If one part were to fail, a duplicate would be on hand to take over...
...requires that railroads be allowed to unite into a "limited number of systems." In accord with the Supreme Court's doctrine, a special three-judge Federal District Court in Washington last week flashed a long-awaited green light for a merger that would create the nation's longest railroad...
...mean "the better craftsman." In this context, "craftsman" means "editor." It is well known that Eliot's great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically inaccurate flamboyance, "the longest poem in the English langwidge" (434 lines in the final version). A facsimile edition of Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published in September 1969. Until that time, the draft, with other notes and the unpublished manuscript, will remain encapsulated: the New York Public...
...become one of the longest of Harvard's long traditions, but The Game tomorrow will be the first time in 59 years that both teams have entered the contest undefeated...
Informed observers claimed that the CRIMSON'S Mark Rasmuson's 67-yard field goal was probably the longest ever kicked in a CRIMSON-Daily Herald game...