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...case affect Kennedy's political career? One factor will be to what extent the U.S. public accepts his TV account of the debacle. It was a slick, carefully written statement that was well-delivered, with uncanny echoes of the haunting John Kennedy voice. Apart from its failure to answer key questions, it was disturbing in other respects. It played somewhat cheaply on the "Kennedy curse" and brought in rather more than necessary the shades of the slain brothers. Above all, Kennedy seemed to want it both ways. He asked to shoulder the blame for what happened: "I regard as indefensible...
Depletion Cut. The key feature of the House committee's reform plan was a slash in depletion allowances on oil and certain other extractive products. The law that is now on the books permits oil-well owners to deduct from their taxable incomes 27½% of the value that each well produces regardless of drilling or operational costs. Long deadlocked over the question of depletion cuts, the committee finally approved 18 to 7 a proposal to drop the allowance to 20%. The compromise move, which surprised even Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, came after Louisiana's Hale Boggs...
...must-to slow down the nation's economy. President Nixon demonstrated this commitment last week when he ordered federal spending trimmed by $3.5 billion, primarily in non-Vietnamese military programs, in order to keep the budget under the $192.9 ceiling set by Congress. Viewing the surtax as his key weapon against the inflation that in June boosted the consumer price index by six-tenths of 1%, he has made it clear that he is willing to pay a price for its extension. Nixon last year indicated opposition to changing the oil-depletion allowance, but he will probably sign...
...service modules, Grumman for the lunar module-also keep staff members in nearby offices. In case of trouble with spacecraft equipment, the contractors can call major subcontractors on their own hot lines. Mission Control maintains an up-to-the-minute list of the whereabouts of some 40,000 key scientists and engineers associated with Apollo...
Beyond Houston, the communications web stretches around the earth-and above it. Key parts of the network are the huge radiotelescope dishes at Goldstone, Calif., Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia, 17 ground stations, four U.S. Navy ships scattered over the seas and eight communications planes-all receiving and transmitting vital bits of data throughout the mission. No one is more aware than the astronauts themselves of how impossible a flight would be without such support...