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Pesticides such as DDT, parathion, aldrin and dieldrin are both ally and enemy to man. The chemicals annihilate predators: the aphids that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals...
...White House, an appearance before Congress, a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, a reception at the United Nations and a state dinner hosted by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. And even before the glow from Apollo 8 subsided, NASA named Astronauts Michael Collins, 38, Neil Armstrong, 38, and Edwin Aldrin, 37, as the crew of what could be an even more historic flight: the Apollo 11 mission, which may well land the first men on the moon...
...flight - a 3301-hours' orbital mission that included the history-making rendezvous with Gemini 6. Both took their long confinement in the cramped spacecraft with equanimity and quiet humor, and displayed competence and stability that helped win them their Apollo 8 assignments. Eleven months later, Lovell .and Edwin Aldrin were the crew on the 941-hour flight of Gemini 12, the last U.S. manned flight before Apollo 7. Between them, Lovell and Borman have a total of 7551 hours in space, about 125 man-hours more than all the Russian cosmonauts combined have compiled during their ten manned space...
Stream of Visitors. At midweek, Defense-Secretary Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Presidential Assistant Walt Rostow arrived to discuss world issues-from Viet Nam to NATO. The stream of visitors continued daily. The last of the Gemini astronauts, James Lovell Jr. and Edwin Aldrin, came to be decorated by the President, along with a galaxy of NASA and space industry officials. On Thanksgiving, Pat and Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird, Lyndon's Aunt Jessie Hatcher and his cousin, Oriole Bailey, along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie...
Despite these glitches, the astronauts doggedly followed their flight plan, even repeated Gemini 11 's feat of flying in tethered formation with the undocked Agena. "If you want to have some fun," Aldrin radioed to ground controllers, "try doing this with two attitude thrusters out." The astronauts also dispelled a growing suspicion that good astronauts make bad photographers. Unlike many previous Mercury and Gemini photographers, who underexposed, fogged and even lost some of their film, Lovell and Aldrin brought back roll after roll of beautifully exposed movie and still pictures, including shots of the total solar eclipse taken...