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Gemini 4 had its failures-a missed rendezvous, a stuck hatch, a computer that malfunctioned - but they were minor compared with its stunning success. Space officials made no effort whatever to conceal their optimism. Minutes after the Gemini 4 capsule splashed down, they flashed this con fident message on TV screens at the Space Center: "End of flight plan-tune in next time...
...short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
Life aboard Gemini 4 settled into a routine that seemed almost mundane after Ed White's excursion into raw space. Yet even as the mission con tinued to circle the earth, there was new Project Gemini activity. Work had begun at Cape Kennedy to mount and prepare another Titan II missile, topped by another spacecraft: Gemini 5, which will carry Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on a seven-day space expedition in late August...
...House of Representatives might have been debating the merits of apple pie for all the opposition that was voiced. Before the House was President Johnson's proposed $4.8 billion excise-tax cut, and House leaders had set aside five hours one day last week for pro and con on the bill. But there was so little con that the debate lasted barely three hours, after which the House passed the bill by a vote of 401 to 6.* As whooshed through by the House, the bill would repeal "luxury" taxes in three stages over four years. The first reduction...
...something close to the 1964 level of 1,584,000 units. many other experts lean toward the view of James C. Downs Jr., chair man of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The market is still oversupplied, and I foresee no dramatic improve ment." One encouraging sign: April con tracts for residential construction, a ba rometer of work to come hit a record $2.1 billin, up to 7? from a year...