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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Cape buffalo hunting in Africa, perch fishing on the Nile, and geese shooting in Chesapeake Bay. Color...
After its big boom in Georgia, the U.S. space program ran afoul of a fizzle in Florida. At Cape Kennedy the three liquid-fuel motors of an Atlas-Centaur rocket ignited on schedule, but the missile that was supposed to toss a dummy Surveyor (soft-landing vehicle) to the moon's orbit, climbed only a few feet before a valve misfunctioned and the rocket fell back on its pad. Thin-walled fuel tanks ruptured, and more than 100 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene burst into flames. The hydrogen-burning second stage added tons of liquid hydrogen...
Slim and tall, the graceful gantries of Cape Kennedy's Missile Row loomed over a week of intense activity. First rocket off the pad was a giant Saturn, its eight-engined booster still the most powerful the U.S. has ever aimed at space. With deceptive ease it ignited, accelerated and climbed out of sight. A few minutes later, the second stage blasted into orbit. Sizable pieces, which are dummy Apollo parts, detached themselves and moved away, leaving a curious folded apparatus exposed to space. Slowly that great gadget expanded its accordion pleats and flattened into a shiny aluminum wing...
...Assateague Island National Seashore, Md.-Va.; Tocks Island National Recreation Area, NJ.-Pa.; Cape Lookout National Seashore, N.C.; Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Mich.; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Ind.; Oregon Dunes National Seashore, Ore.; Great Basin National Park, Nev.; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, W.Va.; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Mont.-Wyo.; Flaming Gorge National Recreation, Utah-Wyo.; Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, Calif...
...graduates of the community colleges. Classes will begin at Pensacola in 1967, and at Orlando a year later. Enrollment, currently 40,000, is expected to rise to 135,500 by 1975. A system of closed-circuit TV education, aimed at supplying graduate courses to scientists such as those at Cape Kennedy, is in operation at four campuses...