Word: boosterism
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Frank C. Erwin Jr. is the biggest booster the University of Texas has. His Cadillac is orange and white-the school colors-and he dotes on the national-champion Longhorn football team. He is a tireless money raiser and wants nothing less than to make the U.T. system the best in the country. He has no patience with anyone or anything he considers damaging to his beloved alma mater-and since Erwin is chairman of the university's board of regents, his antagonists are automatically on red alert...
...Nixon was only Vice-President.) Then America's hopes, indeed, the free world's, depended on a frail rocket named Vanguard. But the shiny object could fly only a yard before collapsing inward. The army developed the Jupiter rocket with the spinning Explorer satellite as its payload. The booster was as American as Werner von Braun, but it did not explode and the race to the moon was on. The Russians became nasty and secretive. They sent up a dog which died in space. The Americans sent up a monkey which lived. Yuri Gagarin (now dead) circled the world...
Almost as an afterthought, Miami threw its boater into the ring. "We know we don't have the history stuff, but we sure want to be part of the national celebration," explained a local booster...
...first U.S. space station, Skylab 1, which is scheduled for orbiting with three men on board in late 1972, will not require a space shuttle. The launch vehicle will be a Saturn 5 booster left over from the Apollo program. In fact, NASA officials hinted last week that they may cancel next year's Apollo 15 moon flight and possibly one of the subsequent moon shots to free more Saturn 5s for space stations. But ultimately only space shuttles offer a really economical method of provisioning and rotating the crews of larger stations such as the twelve-man orbiting...
John Ehrlichman, 45, looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at their suburban Virginia home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could...