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Energies and funds are desperately needed in the United States. Last year the National Institute of Health spent $800 million to save lives, what Roy Greep, director of the Center for Human Reproduction, calls "death control," and only one million on birth control. Last year alone, perhaps 5000-10,000 women suffered death or severe injury to their health as a consequence of illegal abortions. Of the 200,000 to 1,200,000 estimated illegal abortions performed in the United States each year, most women seeking them are married. Tragically, the state and national legislators are as insensitive...
...million Columbia gymnasium was planned for an area that many of these youths use as a playground...
...traffic facility, constructed by Harvard in cooperation with the city of Cambridge, cost $3.4 million...
After spending $20 million to develop a miniaturized on-board TV camera for the Apollo spacecraft and equip tracking stations to receive its signals, NASA officials last month decided to limit its use to only two brief transmissions - one during the third manned orbital flight, the other while astronauts are actually walking on the surface of the moon. NASA's official reason for the curtailed use of in-flight TV was that the camera (which weighs only 71 Ibs.) pushed Apollo too close to its weight limitations...
After the real reason for the $20 million cancellation leaked out, NASA quietly rescinded its blackout order. Thus, during the first manned Apollo orbital flight-possibly late this summer-the U.S. will finally get its first live TV glimpse of astronauts in space...