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The Family Tree. Family was everything to Beckwith. He never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days. The judge's daughter, Mrs. Susie Southworth Yerger, moved in the highest social circles of...
To the moon-eyed whiz kid from RCA, there seemed no insurmountable challenge in straw-bossing the U.S.'s $20 billion man-in-space program. "I think I'm up to it," said Brainerd Holmes, 42, when he took over as Director of Manned Space Flight for the...
But there were other, earthier problems. Webb quickly decided that Holmes (TIME Cover, Aug. 10) attached entirely too much urgency to the moon race and upstaged Webb's own pet scientific probes as a result. Late last year, Holmes asked an additional $400 million for the moon program. Webb...
When argument broke out, after Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit mission, about whether to continue Project Mercury, Holmes again was ignored. Though Holmes personally opposed another Mercury flight because of the high cost, Webb and other high NASA officials publicly dubbed it "unlikely," without once consulting him. The astronauts...
Last week NASA made it official-the Mercury program was finished and the space agency would now start concentrating on Project Gemini, the two-man, rendezvous-in-space program. As it did, the Soviet Union took another step of its own toward the moon (see THE WORLD). But the whiz...