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Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
Early in the flight they complained that their sleep was being interrupted by the noise of a motor that automatically tightened cuffs around Lovell's thighs for two out of every six minutes-part of an experiment designed to keep the heart from getting lazy in a weightless environment. Houston promptly agreed to turn the motor off during the ten-hour sleeping period...
...huge, much of its acreage still covered by scrubby palms. Occasional rattlesnakes are still found there, and when a hurricane drives them inland, the snakes become a serious nuisance. The pads are spread out, miles from each other, connected by a series of highways with names like "Solid Motor Road," "Central Control Road," and "ICBM Road...
...except for the Minuteman. Today's--the Saturn IB--we saw being assembled on the launching pad from which it will send off the first Apollo flights, the beginnings of the actual moon program. It was being assembled within a huge gantry. A mechanic, crawling around the first-stage motor, stopped to explain. The engine consisted of eight Redstone motors in a circle around a Jupiter hull that served as a fuel tank...
Tonight's contest is the Crimson's next-to-last game before vacation. The quintet plays at Tufts Friday, then competes in the Motor City Tournament in Detroit and plays at Western Ontario over the holidays...