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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Small wonder, then, that those on earth saw it as a beleaguered battlefield -not, as Astronaut Lovell described it from his vantage point nearly a quarter of a million miles away, as "a grand ovation to the vastness of space." Sated with violence, sick of crisis, weary of politics and protest alike, the U.S.-and the rest of the world-needed few excuses to look to the heavens. As the year waned, they shifted their gaze to earth's placid, lifeless satellite-as Sir Richard Burton described it in 1880, "A ruined world, a globe burnt out, a corpse...
Ever since, Low has been working six-day weeks of up to 16 hours a day. The Apollo command module, with all its 2,000,000 parts, was torn apart, reexamined, and extensively redesigned at a cost of $75 million, an operation that set back Apollo's timetable by many months...
Fundamental Change. Last week the Department of Housing and Urban Development gave the first operating grant -$19 million to Seattle-under the Model Cities program, which was enacted in 1966. Twenty other grants are anticipated this month. Similarly, the Labor and Defense Departments last month expanded their Concentrated Employment Program, which trains jobless men for posts on military installations. On all such spending programs, Nixon has indicated that he intends to conduct a full review...
...member of other corporate boards. Nixon Law Partner John Mitchell (Attorney General) has been earning more than $200,000. Winton Blount (Postmaster General) is the nonsalaried president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but his Alabama-based construction company has had contracts this year involving more than $100 million. He says his personal income has been "several times...
...long, with relatively few costly takeoffs and landings. Pan Am gets a return on investment of close to 13% in the Pacific compared with less than 5% on transatlantic flights. By CAB estimate, each of last week's five winners stands to add at least $10 million a year to its revenues. But passengers should not expect any rate reductions. Such fares are set by the International Air Transport Association, a 104-airline group that does not necessarily feel that higher profitability should be reflected in cheaper tickets...