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...eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape Kennedy fire that killed three astronauts in January...
...heart-lung pump was still running. Now it was reset to warm the blood. After ten minutes it was switched off to see whether the transplanted heart could carry the whole burden of Washkansky's circulation. It was not yet quite ready, and on went the pump again for another five minutes. This time, when it was stopped, the heart did not falter. It could do the work. The surgeons closed Washkansky's chest. The operation, "from skin to skin," had taken 4¾ hours. It was 7 a.m. "I need a cup of tea," said Dr. Barnard...
Last night's performance derived loosely from an 18th century commedia by Carlo Goldoni, reset to an anti-Vietnam theme. Yet that theme was so consciously overplayed, so heavily milked, so loudly belabored, that it was hard to believe it could have meant much to an audience so obviously in agreement with...
...American Dream. It is no mean achievement to have made the next-to-worst novel Norman Mailer ever wrote into a movie even more embarrassing than the book. Much more embarrassing, in fact. Mailer's novel was an ardent-arrant attempt to reset Crime and Punishment in contemporary America, substituting for Raskolnikov a sort of Supernorman. Censoring both the author's ideas and his scatological eloquence, the film script turns the story into a cliche-stocked, ho-humdrum thriller about a TV star (Stuart Whitman) who murders his rich-bitch wife (Eleanor Parker) in Reel...
Faced with following Khan, Geoff Muldaur of the Jug Band quipped, "If Ravi Shankar can't Ali Akbar Khan" and completely reset the mood of the evening...