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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Electronic Tag. At Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, unflappable Chris Kraft every day faced the decision of whether to keep Cooper and Conrad going for still another day. From start to finish, the "go-no go" decision hinged on Gemini's cantankerous fuel cell. A failure in its liquid oxygen supply tank nearly terminated the mission on the first day, and the faulty heating unit that caused the problem never did kick on. As the flight soared into the second day, the oxygen pressure slowly moved upward-and optimism soared at Houston command. "The morning headline," broadcast Kraft...
Dead was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute ('61), who was studying for the ministry at Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. After taking part in the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Daniels had gone back to Cambridge to finish the school year, then returned to spend the summer working with the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity in Selma. His companion was Father Richard F. Morrisroe, assistant pastor of Chicago's Saint Columbanus Church, who had gone earlier this month to Birmingham to attend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention...
...complete the intended duration of this flight. He had just made one of the toughest decisions of his career, he was confident he had made the right one, and with each passing hour, each passing day that the spacecraft stayed aloft, he was proven correct. Gemini looked ready to finish its mission. "The longer we go," said Kraft, "the better...
...later. "I decided I wasn't going to let him win. To hell with him." Dave promptly canned his putt. On the 18th he dropped his approach 3 ft. from the pin and got the shakes all over again. "I told myself, 'C'mon, make it, finish like a champion is supposed to finish. Don't putt short, just tap it in and walk off like a thief.' " He did, and headed for New York, where his wife was giving birth to Anthony Marr−named after St. Anthony, the patron saint of the poor...
...same wisdom leads Catton to a singularly gentle conclusion about the war's finish and about those who lost. Lee might have commanded his men to melt into the hills, there to wage an endless guerrilla warfare that, in Catton's opinion, could have "ruined America forever." One of Lee's officers proposed this course, but Lee rejected it. Lincoln might have imposed vengeful terms on the defeated South...