Word: civilianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right. On the appointed day, the widowed mother, her two sons, her daughter and her son-in-law were shown into the office of their host. For the next quarter-hour, President Ford did what he could to apologize to the family of Frank Olson, the Army's civilian biochemist who committed suicide 22 years ago after the CIA had spiked his drink with...
...complexion and direction of the regime. The military dissolved the shaky coalition Cabinet when the last of the moderates walked out. At week's end General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, Portugal's Premier, was still trying to form a new Cabinet of military men and civilian technocrats. Meanwhile observers in Lisbon believed that a movement was mounting within the 30-man Revolutionary Council of the divided M.F.A. (Armed Forces Movement) to oust the strongly pro-Communist Gonçalves as Premier...
...memos, telephone calls and meetings every three or four months. But the Americans kept running into a familiar obstacle: the Soviets' still compulsive secrecy. The Russians, for instance, know that U.S. spy satellites have taken minutely detailed photographs of their Baikonur cosmodrome, winch launches both military and civilian space hardware. Still, the Soviets refuse to show the center on any maps; the name Baikonur actually refers to a city some 200 miles away. When the Russians reluctantly allowed the American astronauts to see the Soyuz launch site, they took care to fly them in and out at night lest...
VANCE D. BRAND, 44, the blond, boyish-looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself...
...wife Marjory have an 18-year-old son. Slayton was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. Only two months before ins scheduled liftoff, however, doctors grounded inm because of an occasional irregularity in ins heartbeat. Bitterly disappointed ("I got zapped by a three-man board of civilian doctors who didn't examine me except for about two minutes with a stethoscope"), he continued to fight for a flight even after he quit the Air Force in 1963 and took over as NASA's director of flight-crew operations, winch made inm boss of all the astronauts...