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...other things impress one about the Cape too. To look at the acres of palmetto, the hundred million-dollar buildings, the miraculous machines, and to breathe the words "twenty billion dollars" can't fail to make one wonder. This money is now committed. Beyond it lie the prospects of travel to the planets and the stars, and costs mounting with the same speed as those rockets. And perhaps a few thoughts about priorities. Someone may finally have to answer the question: Why does Rice play Texas
Lost in a Library. "Monday was a bad day," said Jeffrey Brookstone, 17, a top student and student-council president at Palmetto Senior High in Miami. "I went oh-for-three." He had been turned down by Harvard, Yale and Trinity. Unassuming and outgoing, Jeff had been featured in Miami newspapers as an outstanding student leader. He had produced a color movie on Palmetto High that won a national award from the Secondary School Teachers Association. His grades had slipped below straight A's only during one quarter, and then because of his extracurricular activities...
...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...voice, John Glenn began to count: "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six . . ." A great yellow-white gush of flame spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile gantries. Then the rocket took off, heading into the brilliant blue sky. "Lift-off," said Glenn. "The clock is operating. We're under...
ROYAL S. KELLOGG Palmetto...