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...height of the space race, NASA ambitiously scheduled ten lunar landings, planning to send Americans to the moon every four months or so until the end of 1972. As public interest in the moon program faded and Congress chopped away at NASA's budget, however, the space agency began having second thoughts. Earlier this year, it canceled the last of the scheduled missions, Apollo 20, and spaced out the remaining landings to twice a year. Last week, the space agency reluctantly scrubbed two more missions-Apollo 15 and Apollo 19-leaving only four more scheduled flights to the moon...
...please and quick to apologize when he imagined he had done wrong. When his father would tire after tossing the boy in the air and catching him, little Elliott would say, "I sorry, Daddy," throw his arms around his father and give him a conciliatory kiss. At the height of World War II, when Elliott was 51, Goldstein was drafted into the Army. He promptly fractured an ankle, contracted pneumonia and spent eight months in the hospital with a collapsed lung. Lucille made ends meet by selling artificial flowers to neighborhood beauty shops, while Elliott, saddened and confused...
...master. With great tact, Porter blended Hawaiian volcanoes and exotic foliage with views of neat New England farms and valleys. The murals he painted in 1838 for Dr. Francis Howe in Westwood, Mass., are typical. Simple devices create perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered every square inch of the wall with a rustic version of trompe 1'oeil that prefigures William Harnett and John Peto. Doorways were incorporated into his overall composition by foliage...
...raccoons come free to those who can catch them. The canine competition continues through drag races toward a caged coon hanging from a tree and another atop a floating gasoline drum. Among raccoon hunters this is all high art, punctuated by discussions about the bark, speed, height of jump and, above all, the nose of the animals involved...
...another occasion, the wire services entirely ignored one of his scoops -the discovery that President Syngman Rhee had refused the offer of Indian troops at the height of the Korean War -until he leaked it to the New York Herald Tribune. By 1966, when he beat everyone with the first authentic account of the Jackie Kennedy-William Manchester squabble, A.P. and U.P.I. were finally paying attention...