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...when Zubin hit it, they hit it too. When the rest of the orchestra said "Bleep," the violins joined in. When they were required to do fey finger snaps over their heads, they complied. When asked to belch, literally, they drew the line and said "Blurp." When Percussionist William Kraft, dutifully following the score, fired a popgun, they played on unblinking. Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits," like Lumpy Gravy, Duke of Prunes and Who Needs the Peace Corps. Then, everyone in the orchestra suddenly screamed, one final...
Died. Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish-born movie and TV star (The Farmer's Daughter); of an overdose of barbiturates; in Hollywood. A onetime chorus girl, she played TV roles in Studio One and Kraft Theater productions in the mid-1950s, won notice in Hollywood, where she appeared opposite Bing Crosby in Man on Fire, and went on to star in many more films, most recently A Dream of Kings...
...reached at Mission Control, while Schefter and Anderson provided commentary on the technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...
...their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation in the oxygen tanks," he told the Manned Spacecraft Center's deputy director, Christopher Kraft, "one that I think is uncontrollable...
...news conference. Chris Kraft and three friends sit down and meet the press, "Yes, there is enough oxygen...