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...Longer the Better. With each revolution after the crucial sixth, the hopes at Mission Control soared. The flight of Gemini 5, they speculated, might go eight days after all. Relaxed and grinning, wearing a silver Gemini pin in his lapel, Chris Kraft held his first press conference of the mission. "We have reasonably good confidence," said he, "that we're going to be able to go on and complete the intended duration of this flight. He had just made one of the toughest decisions of his career, he was confident he had made the right one, and with each...
...American Bar Association meeting in Miami last week, Edward Kuhn, a deceptively homespun Memphis lawyer, puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution...
...hole. In the Thunderbird Classic at Westchester Country Club two weeks ago, Nicklaus was one stroke behind Gary Player with four holes to go. So on the next hole, a 454-yd. par four, he banged his No. 3 iron second shot to within 15 ft. of the pin, canned the putt for a birdie three-and went on to a two-stroke, $20,000 victory. He made it two in a row at the Philadelphia Golf Classic. Locked in a four-way tie for the lead with two holes to go, he unlocked the tournament with an eagle three...
...filled the molds with plastic. After baking for about 15 minutes in a 500° oven, a tooth was rockhard, ready to be sandblasted smooth, sterilized and put into the gaping socket in the patient's mouth. There Dr. Hodosh fastened it in place-sometimes by a pin through adjacent bone, sometimes by a bridge attachment to neighboring teeth...
...needle's tip has found its mark, Dr. Mullan sends a weak, 4-volt current through it for about ten minutes. During this time he checks the painful areas with repeated pinpricks, and the still-conscious patient reports to the surgeon when he can no longer feel the pin...