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NASA is forging ahead with its plans for the first manned test flight of the Apollo spacecraft on Oct. 11. But a De cember mission, in which astronauts were to have rendezvoused and docked their Apollo command ship with an LM, has been pushed back until February by problems in the Grumman-built module. In place of the LM flight, a manned Apollo flight has now been scheduled for December, the first to be powered by the mighty Saturn 5 rocket...
...paper values during a single hectic week in late May, and $21 billion more on Blue Monday, May 28. By the time it hit its low for the year on June 26. the Dow-Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks stood 27% below its record high of De cember 1961. Investors who in bull market days had been discounting future growth now seemed to be discounting the fall of the republic...
...months from now." Beni Hospital has only a two-month supply of antibiotics, and unless more drugs arrive soon, Dr. Barnes predicts a skyrocketing rate of meningitis, pneumonia and leprosy-plus an outbreak of sleeping sickness. Worse yet, most of the U.N. doctors are scheduled to leave in De cember. Says Dr. Barnes: "What we need here is an almost unknown animal: a specialist in tropical diseases, surgery and obstetrics, with good French and Swahili, who is utterly unconcerned by a total lack of civilized social life...
Collins, a senior, was playing his first game for the varsity this season, and Kelley only his second since early De- cember. The former hadn't contributed a goal since opening the scoring at Yale last year, but tonight collaborated with his new line-mates for a goal, and an assist. A third goal was produced by the line midway through the final period, but was disallowed when Kelley skated through the crease after the shot was taken. The rules, however, state than a goal is to be disallowed only when a player is in the crease before the shot...
...Private Banker Robert Abercrombie Lovett was appointed Assistant Secretary of War for Air, a spot that has been vacant since Herbert Hoover's time. As a special assistant, thin-cheeked Bob Lovett, wartime naval aviator and wearer of the Navy Cross, has been hard at work since De cember on Air Corps problems, carries the hope of Army airmen that he will give them the kind of representation they need in high Army councils...