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...Good News, Bad News" jokes [June 5] did not originate, as you suggest, a few years ago "probably as spoofs on in-flight announcements by airline pilots." They date back far enough to have been contemporary with my grandfather. The best practitioners were Smith & Dale, their routines built around a dream one of them had, with the other analyzing it: "I dreamed my wife ran away." "That's bad." "No, that's good. But she left the children with me." "That's good." "No, that's bad; they're not my kids...
...gags probably originated a few years ago as spoofs of the in-flight announcements made by airline pilots. For example: "This is your captain speaking. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're ahead of schedule. The bad news is that our navigational equipment has failed and we have no idea where...
...crew that landed on the moon last week has been on an even more highly specialized diet than usual. For three days before blastoff, the trio ate foods laced with potassium, and even the eggs in their farewell omelets came from hens raised on high-potassium feeds. Their in-flight food was similarly seasoned. The astronauts are not complaining; Ken Mattingly told Mission Control that the potassium even added a certain zest to his tomato soup...
...quite. After Shepard and Mitchell made the usual in-flight inspection of the lunar lander, an unexpected voltage drop was discovered in one of the two batteries of Antares' ascent stage, which would take the astronauts off the moon. The reading was only three-tenths of a volt lower than normal; yet mission controllers felt that it might be a sign of more serious trouble-a leakage in the LM's critical electrical circuitry, for example. That too could have barred a moon landing. Happily, a subsequent check by Mitchell, who holds a doctorate in astronautics from M.I.T...
...In-Flight President. Less visibly, Nixon, other officials and Agnew himself were looking ahead rather than back. Nixon, the in-flight President, did not let his travelsfrom Key Biscayne to Washington to Paris and back to Washingtondeter him from constant consultation with aides. Much of his flying time was spent on domestic affairs, including the budget and economic message he will submit to Congress in January...