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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lift-off seemed slow and laborious to viewers, there was good reason. Apollo and its two-stage launch rocket weighed a staggering 1.3 million lbs , only slightly less than the 1.6 million-lb. thrust of the Saturn 1B's first stage. As a result, acceleration was gradual; Astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham were subjected to only a fraction of the oppressive G-forces experienced on earlier flights by Mercury and Gemini crews...
During it all, Mexican laborers worked furiously to get everything ready for the games and the spectators flooding in from all over the world. The government spent something like $150 million. University City Stadium, for track competition, was enlarged. Other facilities: a second, 100,000-seat stadium for soccer, a 22,000-seat geodesic-domed Sports Palace for basketball and boxing, a suspended-roof pool with unobstructed sight lines for 10,000 spectators for the swimming events. For the competitors themselves, there was a $12.5 million Olympic Village with 29 six-and ten-story apartment buildings, six mess halls...
...Dogs. Norton Simon made doubly sure that the prize would not escape him; five minutes before the sale began he had two long-distance telephone lines open from his Fullerton, Calif., office to Parke-Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much...
...auto dealerships are Negro-owned; until recently, there was only one. Even the biggest Negro enterprises, such as life insurance companies and banks, are relatively small. The nation's largest Negro-owned concern, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., has assets of $94 million, compared with $25 billion for front-running Prudential...
...GOVERNMENT HELP. Next to business training, what Negro entrepreneurs need most is credit. The easiest source for it is the Small Business Administration. Since 1965, the S.B.A. has made or guaranteed more than 8,000 soft loans, totaling $82 million, to would-be businessmen-about a third of them Negroes-with incomes below the poverty line. Unfortunately, the effort to make instant entrepreneurs of the poor proved disastrous. Default rates soared, and the S.B.A. concedes that a majority of the firms are in trouble...