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Steele and Miss Wright had beaten Harvard competitor Ted Weld and his partner in the semi-finals Thursday...
Rounds one and two will be played today; the eighth and quarter finals on Saturday; the semi's are scheduled for Sunday morning, and the finals for Sunday afternoon...
Flying by Wire. To return the capsule to its normal position, Glenn took over the controls himself and activated other jets. For most of the rest of the flight, Glenn had to "fly" the capsule either by hand, or by using a semi-automatic "fly-by-wire" system roughly akin in its operation to the power steering on an automobile. Because of this, Glenn had no time to perform many of the planned exercises and drills to see if he would become space-sick...
...Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted the Manhattan lawyer, "would be descriptions of life in the penitentiary in Atlanta." Donovan doubted, too, that the Russians would reassign Abel to espionage duty. Said he: "There would always remain the lingering suspicion-especially in a semi-Oriental mind -that he had made some private deal with me to become a double agent...
Apart from the overtones of demi-semi-Hemingway in this creed, the play casts doubt on the joy of life that it rather self-consciously preaches ("use all five senses every day"). To treat life as a branch of esthetics is to observe one's responses to it, rather than engage spontaneously in it, to play-act rather than act, or play. When Wertenbaker and his wife Lael (Olivia de Havilland) make love, he asks for a morning-after review. "Miraculous, as always," she replies, making two people who believe...