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Former Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman yesterday afternoon described what he called "man's conquest of space," and justified the existence of the United States aerospace program to fellow members of the Business School's Advanced Management Program...
...charges North Viet Nam with massive violations. Not only does Hanoi refuse to list its prisoners, but also the North Vietnamese bar the International Committee of the Red Cross from free access to P.O.W.s. Under Article 13, "prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated." Instead, Former Astronaut Borman told Congress, the average P.O.W. has lost 45 to 60 Ibs., and in some cases the men have been "beaten, dragged through villages, and tortured." U.S. peace groups that have traveled to Hanoi, however, claim that conditions in the camps are at least adequate...
...hilarious Brooks-Reiner albums, we get a brave chauvinistic astronaut who suddenly, desperately admits, "I don't stand a chance. I'm gonna lose my life." Or a heavily-accented Greek painter named Corin Corfu who turns out not to be Greek at all but would merely "like to be Greek." Or a New Wave film director named Federico Fettucinni who fills his movies with rape not for commercial reasons but so people will learn how evil rape...
...very close race in Ohio, Republican Robert Taft Jr. appeared to be edging out Democratic liberal Howard Metzenbaum for the seat occupied by retiring Democratic Senator Stephen Young. Metzenbaum had put together an old-style Democratic coalition to beat astronaut John Glenn in the primary but he seems to have been unable to offset the Taft name and a red smear that surfaced a few weeks ago in the election-this despite liberal Democrat John Gilligan's strong victory in the Governor's race...
...most of them barely out of high school by their appearance, though the organization's upper age limit is 40. A lanky boy with a goatee jutting from his chin and a cowlick on the back of his head walked among the chatting delegates, hawking snap-shots of an astronaut standing on the moon next to a perfectly erect American flag. "They're copies made from a slide I got from an outfit in Houston," he explained. "Seventy-five cents...