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...Cabinet job, it seemed, was Nelson Rockefeller; last week he told the President that he would prefer to stay on in New York and, possibly, run for a sixth term as Governor. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, is a possibility for head of HUD. Astronaut Frank Borman, a favorite of Nixon's, is a possible replacement for Volpe at the Transportation Department...
...effect they reduced the accepted speed by roughly 144 feet per second. This may not seem important to camera fans worrying about exposure, or yachtsmen timing a flashing light on a dark night. But it could make a considerable difference to scientists calculating the precise landing site of an astronaut, or astronomers studying immense celestial distances which are measured in light years. Most important of all, man will have a more exact knowledge of the limits and the dimensions of the universe of which he occupies so small a part...
...viewing time. The story line, which appears to be stolen from rejected Man from U.N.C.L.E. scripts, follows the adventures of various agents of "Probe," an organization that saves the good people of the world from the bad people. Hugh O'Brian, who is supposed to be a former astronaut, stars as the agent in half the episodes, while Tony Franciosa, an ex-detective, and Doug McClure, an overweight, overage beachboy, split the rest...
Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...
Last week the stain grew larger. NASA reported that 15 astronauts, all unnamed, were "admonished" for their parts in another commercial scheme. According to NASA, the 15 had been paid $37,500 for signing more than 30,000 stamps and postcards. If these were added to such other astronaut souvenirs as watches, medals and figurines that reached the market, the total price would be just over...