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...national poll for TIME, Louis Harris found that a substantial majority of Americans interviewed (68%) feel that "it is unfair to be critical of the way Senator Kennedy reacted to the accident, because the same thing could have happened to anyone." By 58% to 30%, the public felt that "he has suffered and been punished and should be given the benefit of the doubt." Yet, by 44% to 36%, a plurality thinks that Kennedy has failed to "tell the real truth...
...public gave Kennedy high marks for his performance in the Senate. Yet the TIME-Harris poll reflects a widespread uneasiness about Kennedy as a presidential possibility. Forty percent agreed with the statement that "he panicked in a crisis and showed that he should not be given high public trust, such as being President"; 15% were not sure; 45% disagreed with the judgment...
Court Challenges. With little publicity-and a minimum of public hearings-33 state legislatures have voted convention applications and submitted them to Congress. One more petition is all that is technically needed to call a convention. Before they recessed recently, both the Delaware and Wisconsin legislatures were considering resolutions...
...Aldrin three, but neither man has displayed any obvious ill-effects from the gravity-free flight, the lunar stroll or the lunar environment. Mike Collins, who remained behind in the command ship, lost no weight at all. Locked away with 16 other men-including two doctors and a NASA public relations man-the astronauts spent their free hours playing pingpong, watching color TV and reading the accounts of their voyage (which are sent through an air lock and sterilized by ultraviolet light). After their leisurely evening meals (sample menu: T-bone steak, a bottle of 1964 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux...
Though the astronauts will not make any public statements until after their release on Aug. 12, NASA announced that, at Armstrong's request, it is amending the record of his first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...