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Tooling along in his racy grey Corvette last month, Astronaut Virgil Grissom, 36 —who has topped 5,000 m.p.h. in less restricted environs—was nabbed by a Florida State trooper for doing 70 in a 55-m.p.h. zone. When Grissom failed to pay the $20 fine, Jackson County Judge Julian Larramore got out a warrant for his arrest. Said the judge: "The fact that he has been in outer space has no bearing on what a traffic court does." After a two-day countdown, a money order came winging in from astronaut headquarters.