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YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1952-1953, 1954-1955. AFFILIATION: Lowell. DEGREES: B. A. (Univ. of Colorado), 1957; M. A. (ibid.), 1962; PH. D. (Univ. of Michigan...
MARRIED: Margaret Milligan, Dec. 21, 1962 (Univ. of Colorado, '62). CHILDREN: Reid...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...
...paid to aged pensioners. The commission does not want to recommend such politically unpalatable steps unless it can get some signal from President Reagan and Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, that they will support the findings. Commission Member William Armstrong, a Republican Senator from Colorado, explains: "If we come up with a solution that is not precleared with at least those two figures ... it will just get shot down about five minutes after we announce...
Since 1956 the Army has been wrestling unsuccessfully with the problem of containing contamination at the installation, which currently concentrates on the destruction of old weapons and poisonous materials. Early this month the Army conceded the magnitude of the problem and signed an agreement with the Colorado department of health and the Environmental Protection Agency to detoxify the area...