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...flew within nine miles of the moon's surface aboard Apollo 10's command module. Young was also a back-up crewman for Gemini 6, Apollo 7 and the ill-starred Apollo 13; in all, he has been undergoing intensive flight training continuously for seven years. That arduous routine contributed to the breakup of his marriage: the father of two, he was quietly divorced from his first wife, Barbara, last summer and has since married Susy Feldman, a pretty 29-year-old secretary. Through it all, Young has maintained a highly dedicated, no-nonsense attitude toward space flight...
...years of marriage, constant examination and evaluation of my husband's life (he is an advertising man) has not led me to believe that his life is more satisfying than mine. His days are long and arduous, stressful, hectic, immensely tiring and relatively confined to one track. By contrast, I have been free to pursue my college career to graduation, become a published writer, a portrait photographer, a reasonably accomplished painter, and even a mediocre tennis player. No one in our house has ever been a slave, least...
...pace is arduous. By 7:30 a.m. she is in the office phoning clients in the East, and she stays well into the night going over documents. She admits that "the price of my success has been enormous." One painful cost: because of her dwindling time for domestic life, her marriage collapsed two years ago. Her former husband remains as chairman of the company, but no longer does the grocery shopping, as he once had to. Her $45,000 salary is the least important reward. Says she: "I'm a gambler and get high on a business success...
Thus began an arduous series of taped interviews with the entire cast of what Arnheiter liked to refer to as "the Vance Mutiny," after Herman Wouk's famous fictional "mutiny" on board the Caine. As evidence accumulated before Sheehan, it became increasingly apparent that Arnheiter was, in fact, a bit wacky, and the book took on the surreal character of a modern-day parody of Wouk's classic. Indiosyncracies built on idiosyncracies; unbalanced decisions by Arnheiter made other equally unbalanced ones seem more so. The men who had served under Arnheiter unhesitatingly sketched the picture of a self-possessed, unstable...
Coles's initiation into political activism--exposing exploitation and agitating for governmental reparation as a doctor, a concerned citizen and a social observer--has been an arduous process against the grain of his upbringing. He is quick to pay tribute to the challenge his work involved...