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Last week, as final preparations were made for the dangerous journey, hundreds of thousands of tourists thronged the Cape Kennedy area. The great crowds were reminiscent of those that watched the lift-off of the first moon-landing expedition just over two years ago. Isolated in their crew area, Scott, Irwin and Command-Module Pilot Al Worden practiced maneuvers on Apollo flight simulators, underwent extensive medical examinations, took spins in a terrestrial version of their moon rover and reviewed the myriad details of their lengthy flight plans in the final hours of the countdown. Even the Russians helped. In response...
Roving the Moon The flight of Apollo 15 will be man's most ambitious adventure in space. After its scheduled lift-off from Cape Kennedy next Monday, July 26 (at 9:34 a.m., E.D.T.), the 6.4 million-lb. rocket will hurl U.S. astronauts toward a perilous landing at the foot of the moon's towering, 12,000-ft.-high Apennine Mountains. During their 67-hour visit, twice as long as any previous stay, they will crisscross more than 22 miles of lunar terrain, traveling to the very edge of a winding, quarter-mile-deep gorge called...
...demanded a poetry "direct, free from emotional slither." Hulme insisted "it is essential to prove that beauty may be in small, dry things." Williams Carlos Williams, whose five-line poem The Red Wheelbarrow is perennially quoted as the purest imagist creation ever, announced: "Anything that the poet can effectively lift from its dull bed by force of the imagination becomes his material. Anything. The commonplace, the tawdry, the sordid all have their poetic uses...
Battle Lines. The legislation was designed to lift the burden of the nation's welfare system from the states and bring it under tight rein by the Federal Government. Except for the notion of a guaranteed annual income, the measure contained proposals on which most Congressmen ultimately agreed. Among them: a 5% increase in Social Security benefits and the federalizing of the welfare programs for the aged, the blind and the disabled...
...size of the proposed U.S. Skylab space station, scheduled to be launched in 1973, NASA officials were clearly impressed by the Soviet achievement. The feat stirred less comment in budget-conscious Washington. With the Apollo program coming quickly to an end-the third from last U.S. moon shot will lift off in July-Congress and the Administration seem unwilling to engage the Soviet Union in any new space races. Anticipating bigger and better Soviet space stations, U.S. space officials point out that it now seems more likely than ever that the next decade in space will go to the Russians...