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...Payoff. NASA expects such an enormous payoff from Apollo 15 that it is already calling the flight the first truly scientific expedition to the moon. The lunar module Falcon has been packed with 2,500 Ibs. of added scientific and life-support equipment. The two moon walkers, Flight Commander David R. Scott, 39, a veteran of the earth-orbiting flights of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, and LM Pilot James B. Irwin, 41, a rookie, have had such a heavy dose of geology training that NASA's usually critical scientists say that the astronauts are ready...
...Then the Falcons invaded the Ruben Leñero Hospital near by, where many of the wounded had been taken. They took captive all those who could walk and carried them off to Falcon headquarters, where it is feared more may have been murdered. Through it all, the police made no move to intervene. Who are the Falcons? Spokesmen for President Luis Echeverría Alvarez put the blame on a right-wing student group known as "Muro." But many Mexicans suspect that the city government is involved. Mayor Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, a former head...
That's what they said about the water buffalo too, and the peregrine falcon. After a 50% increase in taxi fares last month, the Great New York City Cab Rider looked like another endangered species. But, wily and adaptable creature that he is, he has begun appearing on the city's streets in resource ful new guises. As a result, now it is the cabbies, more than the riders, who are in trouble...
Other Harvard officers signing the appeal are Walter P. Falcon, deputy of the DAS; Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the School of Design; Peter P. Rogers, assistant professor of City Planning; John W. Thomas, a Development Advisor; and Hanna Papanek, a research associate of the Center for International Affairs...
...thing, he has refused to be categorized. Though his reputation was made on tightly-structured dissections of American folk heroes in such films as The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Asphalt Jungle, he was not adverse to filming the seemingly frivolous African Queen, accused at the time of having some of the characteristics of Tarzan movies...