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Accelerated by the earth's own gravity, the spacecraft hurtled at increasing speeds toward its last great challenge-re-entry of earth's atmosphere. Jettisoning the service module and its trusty SPS engine, the astronauts yawed their cone-shaped command module until its blunt end was forward and then plunged into the outer atmosphere at a speed of 24,629 m.p.h.-some 7,000 m.p.h. faster than re-entry speeds of orbital missions. Roaring down into the thickening atmosphere within a sliver of the planned angle of 6.43°, Apollo passed over Peking and Tokyo, the temperature...
...course, the farmers resist change. Now they are training their ire on a blunt, strong-minded Dutchman who has urged a sweeping, basic change. He is the Common Market's agricultural chief, Sicco Mansholt, 60, whose proposal to the Common Market's Council of Ministers two weeks ago has made him one of the most controversial men on the Continent. In letters, irate European farmers have damned him as "Bolshevist" and a "mad dog." Mansholt replies coolly: "I have a big wastebasket." Cut the Glut. Mansholt has called for an immediate attack on Europe's agricultural surpluses...
...settling with the SEC, the firm managed to blunt some of the impact of the case. Still, the SEC publicly rebuked ten Merrill Lynch employees, and seven were ordered temporarily suspended without pay. Among them were Archangelo Catapano, a vice president and the firm's aerospace specialist, who was suspended for 60 days, Philip F. Bilbao, vice president and manager of institutional services, and five of his salesmen each drew 21 days. Three other Merrill Lynch employees, including two more vice presidents, were just censured. The commission also ordered Merrill Lynch to close its New York institutional sales office...
...approach is blunt. She told H. Rap Brown: "It would be hard to find a racist who is more racist than you are, a man more filled with hate." She used irony on Fellini. "Not even about Giuseppe Verdi has so much been written. But then you are the Giuseppe Verdi of today. You even look alike, especially the hat. No, please, why are you hiding your...
...formerly operated by a "voluntary public organization," will soon be under direct state control. Sergei Pavlov, ex-head of the Communist Youth League, has been appointed to run a new Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. He has been made a member of the Cabinet. And his orders are blunt. Says Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev: "International standards for our sports must be improved...