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...Totally disregarding New York Player-Coach Doug Harvey, who was clinging grimly to his right leg, Detroit's Gordie Howe expertly slipped a one-handed shot past Ranger Goalie Gump Worsley for the 500th goal of his 16-year career. Still a relatively youthful-and mighty aggressive-33, Howe needs only 45 more goals to break the National Hockey League scoring record set by Montreal's famed Maurice ("Rocket") Richard...
...side, to and from Hawaii, was Major General William B. Rosson, recently named as boss of the sort of "individual soldiers" McNamara mainly had in mind: the men of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. The Special Forcemen are training all of South Viet Nam's Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from...
...guerrillas are the best combat troops in the Army. Their badge is their green beret, authorized by the President to set them apart as elite troops. All are volunteers. All are paratroopers. About 40% of the officers and 25% of the enlisted men have had commando-like Ranger training. Officers can speak at least one, and often two, foreign languages. Every enlisted man has one specialty and a grounding in two others, e.g., weapons, demolitions, medical care. The training is intensive: demolition experts can fashion explosives out of fertilizer; medics can amputate limbs and treat any kind of gunshot wound...
Find the Moon. Next day another series of commands streamed out across space. C.C. & S. listened, acknowledged and memorized. When the "execute" command came, Ranger turned the lens of its TV camera toward the approaching moon. The lid that protected the lens from micrometeorites was swung away; the camera was turned on and given 30 minutes to warm up. At another memorized command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth...
...week's end, Ranger III had swept far past the moon, missing its moving target by 22,862 miles. Now it is in orbit around the sun. J.P.L. scientists have two more Rangers nearly built-and they can now be sure that a good launch is all that stands between them and the moon...