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Saturday morning we drove to the Cape. Already, the place is taking on the aspects of a museum. We rode past the abandoned launching pad from which Alan Shepard had been fired down the Atlantic. The gantry from which he was launched was near the site, hugging a Redstone rocket like Shepard's. The gantry was a converted oil derrick, bought hastily after Sputnik (the night before Kurt H. Debus, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, had described details of Shepard's launch: "We had a man in a block-house watching the color of the flame...
...normal preparation cycle is 60 days. There was a chance to reduce this to nine days because Gemini 6 had been kept in a high state of readiness. One of the big questions was whether Launch Complex 19-the only pad at Cape Kennedy capable of handling the Gemini-would be so damaged by Gemini 7's blast-off that Gemini 6 could not be emplaced soon enough. But damage to the launch site was "minimal." Crews began moving the Gemini 6 booster from its hangar to the launch pad 45 minutes after Gemini 7 lifted off. This week...
...hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service plus air-conditioned homes for as little as $1.40 a month, Abdullah lived in a mud-walled house, dressed and ate simply. On his deathbed, too weak to speak, he gestured for a writing pad and scrawled his last wish in shaky Arabic: "Carry on in the most enlightened...
Though crudely plotted, the movie offers some bruising glimpses of the drug addict's world. Director Mitchell turns his camera into streets alive with the ruthless, luckless desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear...
...more for the moon but almost nothing for the world we have now, which is the only one we have, isn't' it? Of course a lot of disturbing things happen with foreign aid, but you don't scrap a whole program when one rocket blows up on the pad...