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Last week, after an elaborate investigation, NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts, David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden, had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back. Through an intermediary, 100 copies of the moon mail were eventually purchased by a German philatelist named Hermann Sieger, who in turn sold 99 of them for a reported $1,500 apiece...
...education of the astronauts' children. The astronauts be gan to feel a bit queasy about the arrangement and finally cancelled plans for the trust fund. They never actually profited from the sale. Still, NASA officially reprimanded the trio and suggested that their future assignments were in jeopardy. Irwin has already announced his retirement, and Worden is being eased out of the space program. But Scott was reportedly in line for a general's star, and the job of chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston...
...question to be asked is why Dylan was once followed with such dire interest. Why did his only mildly unconventional dress and hairstyle seem such a threat to some and such an inspiration to many? How could Irwin Silber of Sing Out! write a self-righteous and uncomprehending "Open Letter to Bob Dylan" in 1964 under the guise of friendship and concern? Why was Dylan's experiment in folk-rock viewed as unspeakably treasonous? (A comparison between the lovely acoustic version of "Sounds of Silence" on Simon and Garfunkel's first album with the far more intensely haunting folk-rock...
...Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus Christ...
...expectations. A number of criminals, Psychiatrist George Solomon believes, "feel that the only attention they can evoke is punishment," and for them "murder may be a way to be killed." Long before being convicted of murdering his landlady, whom he liked, a New York sculptor named Robert Irwin told a psychiatrist: "I was going to kill somebody so that I would be hung...