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These reductions mean that even under the best of circumstances only 18 of the 45 highly trained men still active in the astronaut program have any hopes of getting a space flight in the next few years-nine on the three remaining Apollo shots and nine on the three Skylab missions, scheduled to begin in 1973. Many astronauts have already quit in disgust. The latest: Walt Cunningham, a member of the first manned Apollo flight, who coupled his resignation last week with a sharp blast at what he sees as growing U.S. indifference to space ventures. Within the astronaut ranks...
...same film running through a viewer, and then cut to one of the Stones' vacant faces, a vacancy, you understand, which is supposed to read as shock, or grief, or incomprehension. When Jagger finally sees the murder footage, the big moment has all the spontaneity and excitement of that astronaut's first words from the moon: stagily concerned, Jagger mumbles, "Can you roll back on that, David...
Neil A. Armstrong, LL.D., astronaut. Commander of Apollo 11 on the moon mission, perhaps the greatest trip in history...
Forced Buying. Over the protests of a well-financed lobbying group called the Helium Society, which has installed former Astronaut Scott Carpenter as its president and argues that future shortages are still likely, the Government finally decided to act. In January, Fred Russell, then the Under Secretary of Interior, announced termination of the helium contracts within 60 days. But three of the contractors obtained a federal court order forcing the Government to continue buying helium "until further notice." Last week the Government appealed the decision. But until the case is tried, it must keep on squirting excess helium into that...
...programs as familiar to the voters as are those of entrenched opponents? Last year's congressional elections brought two notable examples. In Ohio, an obscure millionaire named Howard Metzenbaum bought state-wide name recognition through heavy TV spending; without it, he could not possibly have defeated Former Astronaut, John Glenn in the Democratic senatorial primary. In New York, a slightly known, but wealthy Democratic Congressman, Richard Ottinger, won his party's senatorial nomination largely because of a similar lavish expenditure on television spots. Both Metzenbaum and Ottinger outspent their primary opponents by a wide margin-only to lose...