Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technician, who will share the remainder of their quarantine time with them. During the next 67 hours, the sealed van with its five occupants will travel aboard the carrier to Ford Island, Hawaii, where it will be unloaded, flown in a C-141 to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, and transported by truck to the Manned Spacecraft Center...
Americans were gratified that the U.S. had won the race with the Soviet Union to land men on the moon. Said Patricia Lepis of Brooklyn: "It's the greatest thing that could happen to this country. It's definitely an American triumph." Houston Cameraman Ron Bozman argued: "The moon is there and we Americans have to get there first." More often, the moon mission evoked an exhilarating sense of human solidarity and potential. "I believe it's man's greatest achievement to date," said Barry Davidoff, 16, a student at the Bronx High School of Science...
SPEEDING toward their dramatic rendezvous with the moon last week, the Apollo 11 astronauts were aware that they would have company in the lunar neighborhood. With the aid of periodic news reports from Houston, they were able to keep track of the progress of Luna 15, the unmanned Soviet moon probe launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome three days before their blast-off from Cape Kennedy. The Russians cloaked Luna's mission in characteristic secrecy. Some scientists speculated that it was a "scoopy" shot designed to dig up some lunar soil and return it to earth before a manned Apollo...
...already serving time in the Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary for jury tampering, was turned down by a Chicago federal court last week in his effort to win a new trial on his 1964 conviction for conspiracy and fraud in handling union funds. At the same time, a Houston federal judge rejected Clay's bid for a reversal of his 1967 draft-dodging conviction. Both appeals were based on the argument that the Government had used illegal wiretaps, but the judges ruled that the eavesdropping had not contributed to the convictions...
Divorced. Lieut. Colonel Donn Eisele, 39, navigator on last October's Apollo 7 flight; by Harriet Eisele, 38; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, three children; in Houston...