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That disaster virtually brought the Apollo program to a halt and threw NASA into chaos. What was needed was a man who could restore order within the program, and Low was the choice. In April 1967, while preparing for takeoff from Washington National Airport in a small NASA Gulfstream turboprop, he was hustled off the airplane and into a nearby office. Recalls Low: "Everybody in the line of command above me in NASA seemed to be there. They asked me to take over management of Apollo. I probably would have liked some time to think about it, but since anyone...
...idea of how booming was his new business; at 1 a.m., with the suite's beds spoken for, not a hotel room was to be had in Boston. "To hell with it," snapped the new innkeeper, who then flew back to his New York apartment aboard an ITT Gulfstream...
...sales. Pan American, U.S. distributor of France's Dassault-built Falcon, has shown its faith by signing up for 200 Falcons to date-and, says Business Jets Division Consultant David A. Anderton, "that's how many we intend to sell." Equally confident is Grumman, whose new Gulfstream II has logged 75 orders even before its first scheduled delivery, later this summer...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Great One winds up his twelfth TV season with appropriate fanfare: an outdoor show before 12,000 people at Florida's Gulfstream Race Track, featuring Cornetist Bobby Hackett, Singer Dick Roman, Saxophonist Charlie Ventura, a high diver, a trapeze act, and an aerialist performing beneath a hovering helicopter...
...Williamston Kid: the $123,400 Florida Derby for three-year-olds; at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla. A 90-1 long shot that had not won a race this year, Williamston Kid actually finished second, a neck behind Abe's Hope. But after 15 minutes of studying patrol films, the stewards disqualified Abe's Hope for interfering with another horse, and lucky bettors with tickets on the bay colt collected $183.60 for every...