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...that his $6 billion Urban Development Corporation can effectively rebuild city slums. As one Rockefeller aide puts it, "The sound of the steam shovel will soon be heard in the land." More immediately, however, Rockefeller faces a fiscal crisis of immense proportions. The 1969-70 budget is likely to exceed $6 billion, leaving the state with an estimated $1 billion deficit...
...just hear someone (you) saying: can you ask a stranger directions, knowing in your heart his need to answer will exceed his answer--ask, knowing he will almost always answer wrongly or incoherently. And can you follow his directions any way? Can you ask directions without saying where you want to go? Will you follow because he's a special man or because he is just another...
...faster than a returning earth-orbit mission, Apollo will have to re-enter the atmosphere at an angle no greater than 7.4° nor less than 5.4°. Reentry at too steep an angle would cause too sudden a deceleration. The force on Apollo and its occupants could then exceed 20 g's, and friction with the atmosphere would heat the spacecraft far above its design limits. Says Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, Apollo program director: "There would be a structural breakup and loss of the spacecraft and the crew...
Despite good intentions and the Great Society, the health gap is growing. In 1940, the infant-mortality rate for nonwhites was 70% greater than for whites; now it is almost 100% greater-38.8 v. 20.6 per 1,000 live births. In some ghettos, infant-mortality rates exceed 100 per 1,000 live births-approaching the level of a Biblical plague. In Mississippi, the Negro maternal death rate is five times that of whites; 74% of these are, in medical opinion, preventable...
...Exceed the speed limit (on horse-back) through every village and farm in Middlesex Country--which includes Cambridge--on April 19, Patriots...