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Gary Sinise accurately renders perhaps the most disappointed character in the movie--astronaut Ken Mattingly, who was removed from the flight for backup Swigert due to exposure to German measles a week prior to flight...
...never explained why. The Army pilots said they had kept to a single frequency until five days after the shoot-down, when a revamped Air Force tasking order finally told them to change to a second frequency when entering Iraq. "I'm furious about it," says Chief Warrant Officer Ken Holden, who spent eight months over Iraq. "The Air Force set the stage for this accident to occur...
...Harris as flight director Gene Kranz and Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly, who was scrubbed from the mission two days before launch, the grunts of Mission Control are efficient and almost faceless, a Greek chorus busily computing solutions. The astronauts' wives, notably Marilyn Lovell (lustrous Kathleen Quinlan), cope sensibly with despair. Lovell's partners in jeopardy (Bill Paxton as Haise, Kevin Bacon as Swigert) keep things cool, especially when they nearly freeze in their icy cabin. And Hanks provides the anchor. His Lovell--as strong, faithful and emotionally straightforward as Forrest Gump--carries the story like a precious oxygen backpack...
...wore a red cap emblazoned with the letters "CCCP" during the recent Ken Burns' "Baseball" series on PBS, said materialism and commercials have corrupted the game, naming Adam Smith, the father of market economics, as the culprit...
...that Michael Hill, the chaplain, was executed by the policeman,TIME correspondent Ed Barnes reports. But local police say that Hill pulled a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the policeman, who then fired four shots, hitting Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia,and three militia witnesses say the officer, Sgt. Matt May, pulled Hill to the side of the road twice. Police report that May stopped the car because it carried no state license plate; instead, it bore a homemade plate reading "militia." When first pulled...