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Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...
...airport, the Kissingers climbed into a special armored limousine that had earlier been flown out to Wisconsin aboard a huge Air Force C-141 Starlifter. The Marc Plaza Hotel had already been thoroughly checked out by the Secret Service, and the Kissingers were quartered in a suite on the 24th floor that had been secured by the agents. (The only unexpected jarring note was the appearance of ten white-helmeted, swastika-decorated pickets from the freakish American Nazi Party...
Dick Cash in was the 24th recipient of the William J. Bingham Award, Harvard's highest athletic honor. Cash in, a member of the U.S. National Crew Team and three-time varsity heavyweight oarsman, also won the intercollegiate B crown squash tournament this winter...
...questioned the legality of the abortion, which Edelin (TIME, May 27) performed in October 1973. The operation took place after the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down most state abortion laws and well before the Massachusetts legislature enacted a new set of regulations that outlaw abortions after the 24th week. At issue were Edelin's actions during and immediately after the operation. The prosecution charged that the male fetus, which Edelin had estimated to be 20 to 22 weeks along, was in fact older and thus capable of survival outside the womb. Once the abortion had been completed, said...
...desegregate Girard College in 1965. Coleman served on the Eisenhower National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, President Kennedy's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Warren Commission and the federal Price Commission in 1971 and was a U.S. delegate to the 24th United Nations General Assembly...