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...their precious cargo of rocks and lunar samples, the most important souvenir brought home from the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts was nearly two miles of film. Eagerly developed by NASA technicians in Houston last week, the first photographs from man's fourth lunar landing added extra luster to the achievements of Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. During their lunar visit, the astronauts demonstrated that they were remarkably sensitive-and even artistic-photographers...
...Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev. Still strapped in their seats, the cosmonauts did not respond. All three were dead. Russia's triumphant space mission, which had set new records for man's endurance in space, assembled the first manned space station and added new luster to Soviet technology, had suddenly ended in tragedy. In Russia, where cosmonauts are firmly established as 20th century folk heroes, the entire nation mourned. Choked with grief, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko told a television interviewer that "the price they had to pay was not fair." Somber music echoed from radios...
This kind of civic action at home has not been an Army practice in the past, even though the Green Berets made their reputation by doing just that -along with more dramatic feats of counterinsurgency-in Viet Nam and other underdeveloped nations round the world. But the Berets' luster has been dimmed by scandal, the war backlash and the withdrawal of the last remaining Special Forces units from Viet Nam last February. From a wartime peak strength of 9,000 men, the Green Beret force has been whittled down to 6,000. Consequently, two pressing concerns within the corps...
...remarkable new instrument is the result of an almost singlehanded campaign by the 60-year-old head of Bonn University's Institute of Radio Astronomy. Trying to restore some of Germany's prewar scientific luster, Professor Otto Hachenberg personally supervised the design, persuaded the Volkswagen foundation to pay most of the cost ($9 million), and nagged the builders to complete the complicated job from blueprints to operation in a short 3½ years...
...official referee in such matters is the private, nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, which judges by scrutinizing real gross national production, unemployment, corporate profits and other indicators. N.B.E.R.'s experts are now strenuously debating the correct label to place on the slump. Says Vice President F. Thomas luster: "We're right on the fine edge between calling it the most severe downturn that was not a recession-or one of the mildest recessions since World War II. It could go either...