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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar. An F-104G Starfighter, bearing the black formee cross of West Germany's Luftwaffe on its fuselage, was hurtling over the South German foothills toward the Alps last week when it spun out of control. The pilot managed to eject at about 1,000 ft. and landed unhurt in a tree, but his plane plummeted into the black Bavarian soil south of Augsburg. It was the 100th Luftwaffe Starfighter to crash since the Bundeswehr adopted the hot but unforgiving aircraft...
Deliberate Crash. The astronauts' most ambitious lunar excursion will be down the 12° slope of the nearby 665-ft-wide crater that has been the resting place of Surveyor 3 ever since the unmanned probe soft-landed on the moon more than two years ago. Bean will descend first, attached to Conrad with an Alpine-style tether. If all goes well, the two men will try to reach the spidery spacecraft, examine and photograph it and then bring back some of its parts, including a 17-lb. TV camera. These cannibalized samples should provide spacecraft designers with invaluable...
...field of ecology, who deserves a dunce cap this week? According to Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the prize goes to the International Boundary Commission, which is now in the process of defoliating a 20-ft.-wide strip between the U.S. and Canada. The main purpose, says the commission, is to help establish jurisdiction in border disputes and plane crashes. Excluding water, the strip will extend over 2,964 miles of land...
...iron man who makes it all work is Marshall (6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs.), a ten-year veteran who has run up an incredible streak of 159 consecutive games. "What Jim Marshall gets paid for," says Hollway, "is to rush the passer, and that is what he does best. He has a quality of balance as great as any man I've ever seen...
...Gambler's Courage. Part of the lady's appeal was sheerly feminine. Tall (5 ft. 11 in.) and graceful, she had a slightly hoydenish charm that could beguile even her English jailers long after she had lost her looks. She grew up in the cultivated, opulent court of France and French was the language she ordinarily spoke and wrote throughout her life. Pampered and adored there, she was the bride of the sickly Dauphin at 15, Queen of France at 16, a widow-and very possibly still a virgin...