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Purring like contented kittens, the most remarkable support crew ever assembled kept unceasing vigil last week as Gemini spun through space with its two passengers. At Cape Kennedy and at the space complex in Houston, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and at 14 other sites from the Canary...
But does an unemployed truck driver retrained as a welder gain in self-respect? Or does he merely find it easier to get higher paying but still mindless jobs? Asbell's theory jars with his facts. He envisions an Athenian society of proud, liberally-educated citizens; but the reality he...
The French Cabinet is debating whether it should impose firmer controls on the French economy. Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons...
Barring a so-so football record, the University of Iowa is a contented campus this fall. It has regents who value academic freedom, faculty and students hospitable to fresh ideas, ever-more-liberal financial support from the legislature. More important, the university has a tradition of wise, long-reigning presidents...
Up the Ladder. Though he is qualified as a surgeon, Dr. Appel insists that he is still a G.P. "A general practitioner," he says, "can be a very contented person because he becomes infused with a feeling of devotion and humanism; he and his patients get to know one another...