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...addition to the flag, the astronauts left behind a number of mementos from the earth. There was a 1½-in. silicon disk bearing statements (reduced in size 200 times) by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and words of good will from leaders of 72 different countries. The disk also bore a message from Pope Paul VI quoting from the Eighth Psalm, a hymn to the Creator...
...recent tour of Russia, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman called for wider exchanges of scientific information and the joint tracking of satellites. He advocated a halt to "unnecessary duplication" in planetary exploration and suggested that when orbiting laboratories are lofted into space, they be manned with scientists from a number of different countries. A Soviet space scientist, Anatoly Blagonravov, has publicly conceded that there is duplication in U.S. and Russian space shots. "In the future," he predicts, "there is no doubt that space exploration will become a general task for all humanity and not only for individual countries...
Even within the A.M.A., younger practitioners regard as archaic the association's attitude toward public health. Membership (currently 217,000) has declined in proportion to the total number of doctors, although the 100,000 nonmember physicians thereby forgo low-cost insurance plans and valuable research material. Many resent A.M.A.'s geriatric leadership: the average age in the ruling House of Delegates is 62. That body in turn controls the activities of AMPAC (American Medical Political Action Committee). Last year AMPAC doled out an estimated $2.6 million in political contributions to candidates who mirrored its conservative views...
...becoming the President's chief legal officer, Attorney General John N. Mitchell pointedly announced that the incidence of wiretapping by federal law enforcement agencies had gone down, not up, during the first six months of Republican rule. Mitchell refused to disclose any figures, but he indicated that the number was far lower than most people might think. "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity," he added, "has nothing to fear whatsoever...
...this, however, is to give the audience a shot of a setting, have the actors walk in and perhaps rearrange some objects, and finally leave the audience to contemplate the setting some more. Straub apparently does not like to cut within a scene, the result being a tremendous number of disconnected short sequences which leave one with no sense of what one character is trying to do or be in relation to the next, or any sense that what they are doing was once (in Heinrich Boil's novel Billiards at Half-Past Nine) a plot...