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...anyone that I had just entered this country, could hardly speak English, had already spent five years surviving a war, and, above all, after ten years could finally attend a decent school. No, on reading "The President of the U.S. etc. ..." I did not become furious, nor did I rocket my Volkswagen around the block. The affluent society had not yet given me a chance...
...certain diva when peasants must pay for their water and electricity?" asked Ekonomska Politika. "When the town of Budva gives Sophia Loren a piece of land," it replied, "Loren will shed on Budva part of her world fame, which has an astronomical price. Hotels around her villa will overnight rocket in value, as will the whole town...
Shuffling the Standings. After a plague of misfortune and mismanagement had put it three years behind schedule, the Surveyor success was doubly sweet. Equipment broke down during tests and had to be redesigned. The second-stage Centaur-the first liquid-hydrogen rocket-had several mishaps and had flown only one completely successful mission before last week's shot. Summarizing the program, the House Space Committee characterized it as "one of the least orderly and most poorly executed NASA projects...
...last week, the clouds over Surveyor all seemed to dissipate. The Atlas-Centaur rocket that hurled Surveyor toward the moon was only one second late in leaving the pad; it followed a near-perfect trajectory that would have placed Surveyor only 250 miles from its target on the moon. The mid-course correction was so accurate that Surveyor actually scored an effective bull's-eye. Only one "glitch" marred the performance: one of Surveyor's two antennas failed to extend fully after the craft left the earth's atmosphere. But even this problem corrected itself. When Surveyor...
...first, the humorous approach seemed to work. The giant Titan 2 rocket rose on schedule from the launch pad and placed Gemini 9 in an almost perfect orbit. Then, after only three revolutions around the earth, Stafford and Cernan sighted and successfully rendezvoused with their quarry-the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) that had been launched into or bit two days before. But there before their eyes was another disappointment...