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...spacecraft from earth only one month out of every 25-a period referred to by scientists as "the window." All through November the window was open, but the first U.S. attempt to peek inside failed when the Mariner C spacecraft, unable to jettison its 300-lb. fiber-glass protective shield, could not attain the necessary speed...
Died. Harry Hart ("Pat") Frank, 57, first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors, whose 1946 Mr. Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville...
...California, saying that the Fifth Amendment did not forbid states to pressure a defendant to testify against himself. Calling this "an incongruous excrescence on our Constitution," Black offered an elaborately researched dissent arguing that the 14th Amendment's framers themselves intended the Bill of Rights as a shield against the states. He won over three other Justices (Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge). A fifth vote would have turned his theory of incorporation into...
...bullet from which this lead residue came was probably one of those that struck the President and therefore came from overhead and to the rear. Experts established that the abrasion in the wind shield came from impact on the inside of the glass...
...Sachar, president of Brandeis, told the entering class at the University of Illinois. What they need just as much, he insisted, is values to serve "in a world where the harsh voice of unreason cries down the generous passions," and "the elasticity of your minds will be a shield." On campuses across the U.S., college presidents were playing up the value of values...