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...miles out in space Commander Jim Lovell had just wound up a televised tour of the spacecraft. "This is the crew of Apollo 13 wishing everyone there a nice evening," he said. "We're just about ready to close out our inspection of Aquarius and get back for a pleasant evening in Odyssey." Minutes later, the almost idyllic journey of Astronauts Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert turned into a heart-pounding nightmare...
Carswell quickly announced that he would keep his seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Presumably he will return to the pleasant round of hunting trips, parties and football games that he pursued before Nixon's nomination made him a national figure. He has a good precedent for such a course in the conduct of other rejected nominees...
...knows himself well, likes to stretch himself at least as far as his limits and intends to have some reserves left to buttress the extensions. Dickey's house on a man-made lake in Columbia, S.C., which he shares with his wife and younger son, is a pleasant, orderly place that shows the number of things the owner cares deeply about. In his study are eight guitars -six and twelve string, silk and steel and bronze string -that Dickey plays a couple of hours a day, practicing, improvising, adapting hymns to New Orleans rhythms. Near them are other stringed...
Doing a Favor. Brooke's new eminence, especially on an issue laden with racial significance, was a pleasant surprise to liberals who had viewed his first three years in the Senate with disappointment. Though the nation's major domestic problem throughout the period was its searing racial turmoil, Brooke had been reluctant to act in the Senate as a representative of all U.S. blacks. Last week he denied assuming any leadership role, protesting that "I'm just a freshman Senator," but he could not help adding with a grin: "I think we will be doing the President...
...viewer this year, the ceremony was something like a banquet in a Howard Johnson's. The decor was pleasant, the food we were served, rather tasteless. Bob Hope, "America's Ambassador of Laughter," was there, with his own bland brand of social satire. "It's such a novelty seeing actors and actresses with their clothes on" and "Up until a few months ago, I thought that The Sterile Cuckoo was the story of Tiny Tim" were two of his more biting lines...