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Moments later, Shepard's crewmate, Edgar Mitchell, followed him down the ladder. Twice the 40-year-old Navy commander hopped off the bottom steps. The relaxed grip of lunar gravity left him as exhilarated as a child in a playground. "Mobility is very great under this 'crushing' one-sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing...
...Burma, many African and Latin delegates believe that it is their turn. But neither Moscow nor Washington wholly trusts the Black Africans (too unpredictable on any issue but race and colonialization), and the Russians feel that everything south of the Rio Grande except Cuba and Chile is a Yankee playground. Finally, since Communist China is likely to become a U.N. member in the next few years, some countries want a new Secretary-General to come from a nation that recognizes Peking...
...player who was not snapped up in the first round. His pride offended, he was all but ready to sign with the Harlem Magicians, a team styled after the Harlem Globetrotters. Then, reflecting on his childhood in Norwalk, Conn., he decided that he had shoveled the snow off the playground courts too many times, had practiced with weights on his ankles too many hours not "to prove myself one more time." He has. A favorite with local fans, Murphy has permanently settled in San Diego with his 4-ft. 11-in. wife Vernetta and their infant daughter Tiffani Dawn. Says...
...does the lady cope? By alternating between reality and dreams of glory that Mitty would be proud to claim. Her hours watching her offspring in the playground are brief respites from harrowing trips to Viet Nam and nights interviewing Fidel Castro as America's star female reporter. By day she extols the virtues of the grocery list as pop art. By night she is an intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where...
Sesame Street has the aura of ad lib, the spontaneity of a playground game with celebrities and characters. In fact, it is as meticulously planned as a semester at medical school. From Palmer's research department, program subjects flow to the production office, then get channeled to Head Writer Jeff Moss, a veteran of the Captain Kangaroo show. Three weeks before taping, Moss and his writers develop a script. Theoretically, their ideal viewer is poor and culturally deprived. Actually, the show catches the preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well...