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...left to 13-year-old David Cathro, flapping wings made of bamboo and plastic, to make the best flight of the day: he hit the water all of 20 feet from the launch pad. "I talked my mum into letting me have a go," he confessed, "because I hold a bronze medal for swimming...
...since the tragic fire that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967 has NASA's morale been so low or its future so bleak. The signs are all too apparent: shops are shuttered in Florida's once-booming Brevard County, the home of Cape Kennedy. Thousands of engineers and technicians are out of work in Southern California and other aerospace centers. Last week, even as Apollo 15 streaked to the moon, Congress sent the White House a compromise $3.27 billion NASA appropriations bill-$1.9 billion below the allocations of the space agency's heyday...
...rivers and down the highways and along countless jungle paths, the population of East Pakistan continues to hemorrhage into India: an endless unorganized flow of refugees with a few tin kettles, cardboard boxes and ragged clothes piled on their heads, carrying their sick children and their old. They pad along barefooted, with the mud sucking at their heels in the wet parts. They are silent, except for a child whimpering now and then, but their faces tell the story. Many are sick and covered with sores. Others have cholera, and when they die by the roadside there...
OBSOLETE WORK RULES. Countless labor-union featherbedding practices pad the payrolls and push productivity down in construction, printing and municipal services. The primary issue in last week's strike against some railroads by the United Transportation Union was a half-century-old work rule forcing them to pay a day's wages to any worker after he has traveled 100 miles in a train. Though high-speed equipment has long made it possible to cover several times that distance in an eight-hour workday, the union is determined to keep its pay scale tied fairly close to that...
...Giant scale is still built into American art, and that entails large work space. Traditionally, artists seek out a district where space is cheap and plentiful, like the Greenwich Village brownstones four decades ago. Then a price spiral begins with the arrival of uptown people seeking a chic downtown pad. Rent up, artists out; the drift begins again. New Yorkers, being neurotically fashion-addicted, not only use artists as their Seeing-Eye dogs but promptly usurp their kennels...