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...perhaps hundreds of millions more round the world, Americans seemed to go into orbit themselves. "Terrific!" shouted Dennis O'Connell, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y., as he paused in a Manhattan pub to watch the landing. "It shows everybody we're still No. 1." Mrs. Alicia Hoerter, a Louisville grandmother, could barely contain her excitement or her puns. "Columbia, the gem of a notion!" she exulted. "First, it's a rocket, then it's a spaceship, then it's a plane." In a packed Georgia Tech ballroom, great whoops of joy went up when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touchdown, Columbia! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Married. Richard Applegate, 40, NBC correspondent captured in 1953 by the Chinese Communists while cruising on a small yacht west of Hong Kong, and released last fall after 18 months' imprisonment; and Barbara Barrows Hoerter, 38, Applegate's lecture manager; both for the second time; in Chicago. Serving as best man was I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, who was captured with Applegate and released by the Chinese at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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