Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight continued without serious problems, an air of heady optimism began to pervade the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Said NASA's Christopher Kraft: "The performance of the vehicle to date has been very close to perfect." At week's end, officials were hinting that if Apollo 7 continued to perform faultlessly all the way through its splashdown this week, the planned lunar-orbital mission of Apollo 8 might well be advanced by two weeks...
Schirra's decision to retire from spaceflight will allow him more time for the ground-bound activities he enjoys-parties around the Houston space center, water skiing and sailing with his wife, Josephine, and his children, Walter, 18, and Suzanne, 11. "I've been gone one heck of a lot," he says. "It takes...
...fell to 4.9% during the first quarter of this year, the lowest level of the decade. The figure runs far lower in many places. One reason is the remarkable proliferation of huge apartment communities loaded with amenities for a leisure age. A swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge, shuffleboard courts, a putting green or even...
...stretching the S.B.A.'s $1.1 billion loan kitty by guaranteeing loans made by private lenders, has lined up support from dozens of major banks. Last week five of Manhattan's largest banks agreed to provide up to $50 million to help minority businessmen. A consortium of 23 Houston banks has pledged $7,000,000 for the same purpose, a nine-bank group in Philadelphia, $6,000,000, a group in Boston...