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Returning home from a tour of Britain and the U.S., the government-appointed Prefect of Paris, Maurice Doublet, produced his ratings of some of the cities he had visited. At the top of the list was San Francisco: "It reminds me most of Paris, but there's more. There's a very agreeable mixture of new big buildings and the old." Second was London-good mass transportation and parking. The third choice, Chicago, was a pleasant surprise because "they've respected nature in many areas of the city and there are good vistas...
...Angeles came in fourth; Doublet said that he had found less smog there than he had expected. In last place, the Paris administrator listed New York. Central Park was joli, he agreed, but "if they brought New York's subway to Paris, I assure you there would be a revolution." Later Doublet's office issued a statement denying that he had cast aspersions on New York...
...letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction, Shepard will probably take over the vertical controls at an altitude of 300 ft. The actual touchdown, in a flat region between small features called Triplet and Doublet craters, should take place at 4:16 a.m. E.S.T. Friday...
Chillingly Sexless. The play also is vivified by the extraordinary performance in the title role of Alvin Epstein, one of the Yale Repertory directors. He hates. His eyes glitter with refrigerated rage at everyone, including himself. In an elegant, Hamletesque black doublet, his body is rigid with a tension that can never find release-even in the contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl...
...high ridge at the approach to their landing area. Ahead will be a curious horseshoe-shaped feature called Weird Crater. Lovell, who has logged more time in space than any other man (572 hr. 10 min.), will probably attempt to set down between two groups of craters named Doublet and Triplet. If he overshoots his prime target, he may try for one of two nearby alternative landing sites picked by NASA planners (see chart...