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...Such a program is Discovery '63, a children's show on ABC, 4:30-4:55 p.m. weekdays, which ranges skillfully and educationally through a host of subjects and themes. In the coming week, for example, Discovery '63 covers unusual zoo animals, the U.S.'s Gemini space project, micro-projection of tiny objects and organisms, a trip through Washington, B.C., with Interior Secretary Udall, and a visit to the Smithsonian Institution...
...dollars from other NASA programs into manned space flight." Thus, Holmes has no choice but to cut back his program. Last week the signs of that cutback were obvious in space centers across the U.S.: » In St. Louis, at McDonnell Aircraft Corp., makers of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, strict limits have been set against overtime work. » In Maryland the Martin Marietta Corp. has laid off 225 men who were working on the Titan II booster, the rocket that will launch Gemini. » In Houston, home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought...
...Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...
Controlling the Gemini during re-entry and gliding it through the lower atmosphere to a proper landing place are certainly jobs for a man with experience in winged aircraft, but the rest of the flight will call for very different skills. One of the men on board will have to handle a complex computer as rapidly and efficiently as a secretary drumming on a typewriter. He will need the know-how necessary for interpreting the readings of new, esoteric instruments. For this futuristic job, an M.I.T. doctorate may soon be more of a recommendation than many years' experience...
...quit as chief project engineer for the Martin Co. and, with $135,000 in loans and a satchel full of his designs, opened his own twelve-man shop at the St. Louis airport. Today McDonnell Aircraft Corp., maker of a celebrated string of fighter planes and the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, is worth $149 million. In the sharply competitive aerospace business, where losses come easily, McDonnell's profits have increased for twelve straight years, amounted to $13.9 million in 1962. Crusty, M.I.T.-trained "Mac" McDonnell, who controls the company with his 13% stock ownership, runs it all (TIME...