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STEPHEN J. CUNNINGHAM JR. Blacksburg...
...Nikos, the young scholar who takes Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...
Before they splashed down in the Atlantic 230 miles south of Bermuda, Apollo 7 Astronauts Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele had completed 163 revolutions of the earth, com piled more man-hours in space than all of the manned Russian flights combined...
Ferried to the Essex by helicopter, the three heavily bearded astronauts walked unsteadily, obviously weary after their long confinement. But NASA doctors reported that despite colds, loss of weight (Schirra 41 Ibs., Cunningham 8, Eisele 10), and muscles weakened by inactivity, the three space travelers were in good health -and in better humor than they had been for most of the week. The irritability that they had displayed during exchanges with ground controllers, said the doctors, was a natural consequence of long confinement, a rather humdrum flight and troublesome head colds. NASA's Paul Haney had another explanation: "Something...
...astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty of buying a drink for everyone within earshot. "I have recorded my answer," responded Slayton from the control center, after momentarily switching off his microphone. On one show, Astronauts Schirra and Cunningham suddenly floated up from behind their seats and swam toward the camera, vividly demonstrating the weightlessness of space flight...