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...despite competition from her more glittering sisters who eat, tell time and talk on the telephone. G.I. Joe, a boys' doll that used to be outfitted in military togs, has been redecorated in deference to antiwar sentiment. He now often appears in the garb of an astronaut or aquanaut...
...turns out that Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men on the moon, not only helped make that giant step for mankind, but made one for Christianity as well. In London, Dr. Thomas Paine, former chief of NASA, disclosed that during radio blackout Aldrin opened two little plastic packages, one containing bread, the other wine. "I poured the wine into the chalice which our church [Webster Presbyterian Church] had given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side...
...takes flying lessons in an unsuccessful effort to become a pilot. Sometimes he is "a wild parachutist." In any case, he has "a singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and the force of gravity," and "even dreams of being able to fly, weightlessly, like an angel or an astronaut." With his "driving death wish," he may hope to die by another's hand, fantasying that he will "rise upward to God in an antigravitational fashion...
...record of rule breaking includes acrobatics at low altitudes, landing at a closed airport and buzzing a New Jersey gun club, was awarded honorary membership in the Air Line Pilots Association. At the ceremonies, Airman Doolittle, who became a hero in the 1942 raid on Tokyo, swapped tales with Astronaut Frank Borman, and offered two definitions learned during his harrowing experiences in the skies: "Anxiety," said Doolittle, "is something generated by a feeling that you might not succeed. Fear is something else-that's what you feel when you're in an inextricable position...
...interested in Scott's white, coarse-grained "Genesis rock"-which may be a fragment of the moon's original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus, he will become the first scientist to walk the moon...