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Next to the "vertical assembly building" was a control building, with instrument panels enough for all the technicians who would have to be present for the moon shot. There were also plush leather seats for a hundred or more VIP's who would arrive to watch the shot...
...Harvard hockey team faces its fourth Eastern hockey power in a week tonight when it plays its by-now familiar underdog role at Brown. But the 8 p.m. contest at plush Meehan Rink is more than just another chance for an upset; it is the Crimson's Ivy opener against essentially the same Bruin squad that won the League championship last year and thrashed fallen Harvard...
...saying, the junior guru from Washington led the last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said...
...Linn Emrich, 34, was a commercial-airline pilot, but quit because "it took all the satisfaction and joy out of flying. You always had to fly where they wanted. You sat there in this big plush seat with your earphones on, the radio chattering, and the engine noise drowning out almost everything." Now, in the lovely lake valley near Issaquah, Wash., Emrich operates an airport devoted exclusively to sky sports-flying, sailplaning, parachute jumping and ballooning. He is his own best customer, and was the first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people...
...Keilholz decides plush interior is absorbing too much sound. Hall's deep-pile gold carpeting is rolled up and replaced with black vinyl. All 1,384 thick-cushioned seats on main floor are removed and replaced with 1,502 skinnier wood-back models. Rivulet-shaped panels are tacked on side walls to reflect flow of sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room...