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Grissom, the second American in space, White, who made the first U.S. space walk, and Chaffee, a rookie astronaut, had been scheduled to run through a simulated Apollo launch. Suited up, they clambered into the gleaming steel cone 218 ft. above Pad 34 and hooked themselves up to life-support systems. Technicians sealed the airtight double hatch plates and pumped pure oxygen into the little chamber. The test countdown had proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream...
...watershed of possibly historic dimensions had arrived for the beleaguered Third World petropowers. In the '70s, when oil-price hikes seemed limitless, eager representatives from the industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell everything from weapons to steel mills. In the Middle East, the cascade of petrodollars brought about novel configurations of regional power, with Saudi Arabia taking a leading role. Bankers rushed to lend billions of dollars to such oil producers as Mexico and Nigeria, which were embarked on crash development programs. Always there was the worry that...
...Leverett student demonstrated what might happen if a bum attempted to sleep on the grates. Leaning back like a Limbo dancer across the sabotaged ironwork, he found himself tumbling on the cold concrete. Everybody laughed and examined the structure. Look at those steel bolts. Solid. Soddered tight. Fresh coat of paint too. Reinforced steel...
...that we're off the cold diagonal bars of University action, back onto the flat warm city-steel surface of heat and common humanity, it's time to do more than offer the barest, basest minimum of community charity. When we begin to congratualte ourselves for allowing homeless men to continue to take refuge on ventilation units, we have begun to reconstruct the inequities which put them there...
...with a loud, ominous clang. You take off your jacket and shoes and give them to a guard to inspect. After walking through a metal detector, you are patted down by the guard--who even checks your mouth. Then you put your shoes back on and wait for a steel-barred door to wheel open...