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...understandably ill at ease making small talk with Presidents and Prime Ministers. "It's the 29th, isn't it?" she asked nervously, as she signed the guest book at the presidential palace. Judy's shyness was offset by the easygoing enthusiasm of Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, who accompanied the Agnews on the first week of their tour. With an arm around Judy Agnew, Cernan told Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos: "We feel the moon belongs to everyone." "Ah," beamed Mrs. Marcos, "as in the American song...
...education by travel. He has said that his grounding in international affairs derives from his peripatetic years as Vice President. So it was only a matter of time until Nixon pinned wings on his own Vice President. Last week Spiro Agnew, his wife Judy, Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, ten newsmen and a score of aides and Secret Servicemen boarded Air Force Two to begin a 25-day, 37,000-mile tour of Pacific and Asian countries...
...Although the Apollo 10 crew has been criticized for profane language [May 30], the fact is that Eugene Cernan merely called the attention of the universe to his ill-behaving craft. What better thought could he have had than to remind "Snoopy" of his dog-mother in order to straighten out his puppylike behavior...
...language of the Apollo 10 crew was indeed more earthy than any previously broadcast from space. But the lapses were understandable. When Snoopy began gyrating wildly after its descent stage had been jettisoned, an alarmed cry of "Son of a bitch!" escaped from the startled Cernan. As Astronaut Stafford was preparing to take black and white pictures during Snoopy's low pass at the moon, he suddenly shouted: "You know, this goddam filter has failed on me." Finally, at the end of the day, a ground controller asked: "How are you guys doing?" The reply: "The crew status...
...astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream and attacked their week-old beards in the traditional manner. The bristles were successfully contained in gobs of shaving cream that were scraped from their faces and collected in a towel. Said Cernan: "That's one of the most refreshing things that's happened in the last couple of days...