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...Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog, there is also a vigorous mix of farce and moral fervor in Humboldt's Gift. Charles Citrine, the book's late middle-aged hero, is-like Bellow-a dedicated resident and booster of Chicago. The son of Jewish immigrants, he has made a name for himself as a Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer, essayist and playwright. LIFE has commissioned him to write an intimate article on Bobby Kennedy. The French government has honored him with an Order of the Chevalier, which entitles him to wear...
...star prosecution witness was Larry E. Williams, who said he had been hired by Gurney in 1971 to raise a "booster fund." Gurney denied that. They were indeed a somewhat contrasting pair. Gurney, Maine-born, Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that...
...continue for long. For scientific as well as political and military reasons, the Russians can be expected to step up their space effort, launching up to six manned flights a year. After several explosions, they may also make a new effort to send up their huge G-l 6 booster, which is even larger than the U.S. Saturn 5. If it works, the Russian; could use it to erect a large space station, set up lunar bases and perhaps send off manned voyages to other planets...
...mission involved no major technological breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
...line dispatch, Tass reported that the mission was aborted when an upper stage of the Vostok booster rocket began carrying Soyuz 18 off course; at that point, the rocket shut down automatically and the spacecraft was set free for return to earth. The two cosmonauts, Vasily Lazarev, 46, and Oleg Makarov, 41, seem to have escaped injury, but Western observers pointed out that if the upper-stage engine had fired a few seconds longer, the cosmonauts might well have come down in China...