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APOLLO 11 (ABC, CBS, NBC). Hugh Downs and David Brinkley will start off NBC's coverage from Cape Kennedy at 6 a.m.,* with ABC's Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman joining in at 7 and CBS, with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra, at 8. The networks will be going all out in presenting the zenith event of the space program, and plan to spend two days in continuous coverage (Sunday, July 20-Monday, July 21), when the descent to the moon's surface is scheduled. A camera in the lunar module will transmit, live...
Unnatural Environment. The rhythms of life at Cape Kennedy are set not so much by the clock or the seasons as by the irregular flights of the missiles. Bouts of furious activity and 14-hour days may be followed by periods of idleness. "It's not a natural environment," complains Ray Forbes of General Electric, who visits the space center for launchings but leaves as soon as he can. "Down here you oversmoke, overeat, overdrink, overworry and undersleep...
...Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
...have time for." Well, not quite. Infidelity is so common that Father Vincent Smith, pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Cocoa Beach, wryly says that it has become a community joke. An investigator for the American Social Health Association, sent down to measure Cape Kennedy's incidence of prostitution, quickly abandoned his search. Professionals were unnecessary, explained a succession of bartenders and bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks of NASA and the space contractors. Liaisons often begin at "Thank God It's Friday" parties...
...politics or community projects. "They think they don't really live here, and so they tend not to get involved," explains Psychiatrist Podnos. About 14% of Brevard County residents have been there less than a year, and only 4.5% expect to stay for more than five years. The Cape is a society of "ten-percenters"-men who move from one space contractor to another seeking a 10% pay increase. Their insecurities are heightened by shifts in space policy. With the Apollo program drawing to its end, the space center has announced that 5,000 employees will be dropped from...