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...intimacy in every moment of the final, fiery descent. Journey's end was safe and all according to script, in sharp contrast to the crisis of mid-voyage, which had been full of unprecedented danger and breathtaking improvisation. The devastated service module, original source of the deadly hazard, peeled off properly. Aquarius, the lunar module that had served as savior instead of explorer, unzipped easily. The command unit Odyssey touched down within four miles of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Helicopter recovery ticked along as if automated. Soon Lovell, Haise and Swigert were on the carrier's flight deck, hearing Rear...
...participated in sessions of the Medical School's Community Relations Committee, which Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, had set up to "guide" University decision-making with respect to institutional expansion in Roxbury. This committee approved and reiterated proposals that Harvard adequately maintain and repair safety hazards in tenants' apartments, and that it immediately rent other vacant homes in the area to prevent an already fragmented res?den??l community from failing hopelessly apart?. Yet it was not until last month-eight months after the recommendation-that Harvard completed a safety survey of its medical area apartments...
Themselves surprised by their newfound militancy, and having already risked their jobs and pensions by defying the federal antistrike laws, the postal workers were determined to justify the hazard by making the most of their action. "We're used to hard times," said one striker, and few of his fellow workers would disagree. Union meetings resounded with obscenities aimed at Rademacher, Richard Nixon and everyone else urging a truce. Gustave Johnson, president of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, where it all started, asked for compliance without really expecting it. "For the first time these men are standing ten feet...
...committee's action stems from a proposal by Brent Dechene '70, who argued that bare feet are not a health hazard and do not affect the decorum of the University...
...handy a printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...