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...Biscayne required $3.2 million, including $418,000 for a helicopter pad and $300,000 for communications equipment. Among the other expenses: $621.50 for an ice maker used by Government employees and $2,000 for a study of beach erosion. Security expenses elsewhere included $16,000 for a Secret Service command post and $168,000 for military equipment on Grand Cay, the island in the Bahamas owned by Industrialist Robert Abplanalp and frequently used as a retreat by the President...
...order went out to begin the preparations, the shape of the proposed rescue became clear. Cape Kennedy's Pad 39B would have to be hastily readied for another launch. The Apollo rescue ship would have to be stripped of other gear to accommodate five passengers instead of the usual three and ballasted with 1,000 lbs. of lead to compensate for the resulting shift in the center of gravity. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind, back-up Skylab crewmen, would pilot the craft to a rendezvous with Skylab and probably dock in an emergency port at the side...
...from the mountain air of Tennessee is Camperland, a 200-site concrete parking pad built by the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Overnight fees are only $4-a lure that supplies the Stardust with patrons for its casino, restaurants and nightclubs. Since Jan. 1, some 70,000 camper-customers have been boosting the hotel's business. The parking lot itself contains a small swimming pool, bathhouse and laundry room, where women campers who have just been coiffed at the Stardust beauty salon compare notes on the evening's entertainment along the Strip...
...three pizza parlors in the Square don't turn out stuff too differently from each other, though experts will argue over the fine touches in the pedigree of each. They are Joe's (at the corner of Mass Ave. and Linden St.), the Pizza Pad (at the corner of Mt. Aubrun St. and Plympton St.) and Pinnochio's (74 Winthrop St:). Joe's seems to be the favorite of most...
Breakfast of Champions is loaded with pictures too, all by my creator. Unfortunately Vonnegut can't blame his publishers for these childish sketches, which I assume were included to pad the novel out. In many ways, these drawings, along with the over-simplified prose indigenous to the Vonnegut novels I've lived in, remind me of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery. This is a heavy classic, the kind of children's book where adults can find "deep awareness." But if The Little Prince has any content, Breakfast of Champions has none. My creator's general idea...