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During his 20 minutes outside the spacecraft, White took pictures, traded repartee with his partner and watched the earth slip by from Mexico to Bermuda. He used an oxygen-firing space gun to propel himself about...
...write off Thailand as a "client state" of the U.S.-clearly implying that Thailand's independence is a fiction and that it is suitable for inclusion in China's sphere of influence. Nearly 1 billion non-Chinese Asiatics, including the North Vietnamese, are not anxious to slip under the bamboo curtain lowered over them ever so casually by Messrs. Morgenthau and Lippmann...
...loyal readers of British spy fiction, it seems almost incredible that the cold-eyed watchdogs of counterintelligence in Whitehall could let H.M.G.'s closest secrets slip into the hands of the enemy. Yet Atom Scientist Klaus Fuchs got away with it, and so did Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess of the Foreign Office, not to mention the more recent indiscretions of Admiralty Clerk, William Vassall...
...around $60. In the past, fingers fumbled to thread film along sprockets and through take-up spools. To remedy the situation, Kodak two years ago brought out its line of Instamatic cameras that featured instant-loading Kodak cartridges in a new size, slightly smaller than the traditional 35 mm. Slip the cartridge into the camera and presto-you are ready to shoot. Not to be outdone, West Germany's Agfa came up with Rapid cartridges, which use the regular 35-mm., but thread automatically into a receiving cassette, require no rewinding when the roll is exposed. Other domestic...
...Admissions Committee doesn't turn people down simply because their grades 'slip just a shade,'" Glimp said. He emphasized that grades are only one of several considerations which the committee evaluates...