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...snow-covered steppes of Kazakhstan last week after six days in orbit, Soviet space officials were exultant. The successful flight, they said, showed that their cosmonauts and spacecraft were capable of carrying out their assigned role in next July's historic orbital linkup of an American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz...
...space officials could only hope that the Russians were right. Although the U.S. Apollo spacecraft has more than demonstrated its incredible capabilities on eight missions to the moon, the Soviets are still ironing the kinks out of Soyuz. The workhorse of the Russian manned space program underwent a radical overhaul after three cosmonauts were killed when a hatch seal failed in a 1971 flight. Even that redesign did not eliminate all the bugs. At the time of its previous test in August, Soyuz 15's thrusters failed during an attempted linkup with an unmanned Salyut space station...
...role she has tailored for herself over the years at places like Harlem's Apollo Theater is an outrageous caricature of a menial black. She is a whole lot smarter than she looks, and she sure looks terrible. Her hair-what there is left of it-is styled by Mixmaster. Her speech is so slurred that she sounds as if she has gargled with molasses. What she says may sound like gibberish, but she is always savvy...
...international reputation as a `doctor of sick mines'") worked in China. At Independence, Truman's Masonic memorabilia are displayed with pictures of 14 other presidents who have been Masons. In the Eisenhower Museum the large collection of World War II weaponry and a sample of moon rock from the Apollo 12 mission are focal displays. In all of the museums, where trained specialists continually up-date and replace exhibits, there is a growing emphasis on an interpretative presentation of material rather than the mere display of objects. In the Truman museum an exciting exhibit--The Whistlestop Campaign...
...show, in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet; in Charlotte, N.C. During his career, Merriman produced the award-winning CBS radio broadcast, "The World Tonight," covered the Senate-McCarthy hearings for the network during the 1950s, and two years ago earned an Emmy for his reporting of the Apollo space flights...