Word: rested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Control, however, than the control room. For each console there is a staff support room down the hall manned by a dozen or more experts. Complete telemetry from the spacecraft is received by staff-room consoles, which funnel the most important bits to the control room and store the rest. The space program's major contractors-North American Rockwell for the command and service modules, Grumman for the lunar module-also keep staff members in nearby offices. In case of trouble with spacecraft equipment, the contractors can call major subcontractors on their own hot lines. Mission Control maintains...
...rest of the program matched Madame Carmirelli's Romantic tastes. It included a modern Italian violin sonata and a piano-violin sonata by Ferruccio Busoni. The Busoni piece went smoothly, with thematic-seeming material floating by with all of the grace of the turn of the century. Someone once said of Busoni that "he was hopelessly ahead of his time when he was writing and is now hopelessly Romantic." That adequately describes his sonata. It probably says a lot about the program and the performance at the concert as well...
...Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, is in the direct cinema style. Its structure. Characteristically, is determined by following the subject-in this case a door-to-door Bible salesman (Paul Brennan) -with sound recorder and camera. The film opens with Brennan and his three selling teammates in Chicago, and the rest of the film takes place in Florida, where Brennan and his buddies are opening new territory. Under direct hortatory pressure from is sales manager and psychological pressure form his less than sympathetic competitors, the elderly Brennan finds himself unable from his increasingly pathetic reactions to seemingly ordained failure...
...syndicate, however, has been unable to take all the gold that South Africa has offered. The Bank of Portugal has broken the central-bank boycott and bought some of the rest at the official $35 price. The Lisbon bankers took about $145 million worth in 1968 and another $120 million worth early this year. Johannesburg moneymen also believe that South Africa has loaned some gold to other African nations...
...judged on the basis of their diversionary possibilities, Apollo 11 scores high on the ratings. After all, if President Nixon, a man whose distinguished career is speckled with its own glorious moments, can call Sunday the proudest day of his life, what else can it be for the rest of us? And yes, Spiro, if you want to go to Mars, we're all for it as long as, next time, more color cameras are on board. For despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions...