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...weeding process of Hoover's longtime cronies in the bureau continues. Last week Joseph J. Casper, 53, assistant director in charge of training and a 31-year veteran, announced his early retirement; he is the fourth man to resign from the top FBI ranks since Hoover's death. Gray has also purposefully made himself visible and accessible, opening the FBI'S doors to the press and patching up relations with those law enforcement officials with whom the aging Hoover had developed feuds...
...that strikingly convey the eerie desolation of lunar distances. None is more dramatic than one that shows the Lunar Rover parked on the far edge of a yawning crater while Astronaut Duke picks up soil samples in the foreground (see color pages). One alarming view of Orion, shot from Casper by Mattingly, shows mysteriously damaged panels on the side of the lunar module as it returns from the surface of the moon...
...nursery school for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded kids under seven years of age. These programs represent cooperative ventures between the state Mental Health and Retardation Center, the cities of Cambridge and Somerville, and private organizations such as the Cambridge Mental Health Association and the Board of Casper...
...from the lower stage's protective gold foil. The camera worked so well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they were bringing with them. Later, having nearly obscured their original check lists with fresh flight data radioed by Houston, Duke and Young apparently overlooked one item and forgot...
Exposing Microbes. Other scientific work on the 3½-day return journey went more smoothly. At a distance of some 174,000 miles from earth, Mattingly emerged from the cabin to retrieve cassettes of film from Casper's scientific equipment bay. During the televised "space walk," Mattingly also exposed a small container holding some 60 million microbes-bacteria, fungi, viruses-to the direct ultraviolet rays of the sun. From the test, scientists hope to learn whether intense ultraviolet radiation, as well as other conditions encountered in spaceflight, has any genetic effects on microorganisms...