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...Giants, Walter Schirra and the Summer School Player's production of "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" are, respectively, the three things to have brightened my day. The first two I find myself prevented from writing about; the third, I further find, I have already commented upon. Hence, with your permission, a second edition of my review of "Captain Brassbound," suitably revised, corrected and--a la Martin Gardner--annotated...
Some time next week, Navy Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. is supposed to blast off on a six-orbit space trip around the earth. But last week Schirra blasted off without ever leaving the ground. And what he said sent officials scurrying for their hard hats...
Appearing in a CBS television interview, Schirra had a few words about the postorbital activities of Astronaut John Glenn, who has recently been making appearances ranging from the Seattle World's Fair to Everett Dirksen's frivolous Anti-Superstition Society, while sandwiching in some water-skiing with Jacqueline Kennedy and attendance at a Bobby Kennedy pool party...
...Said Schirra: "I think John's had a pretty hard pull lately. His commitments have just about wiped him out of the space program. He hasn't been able to maintain the currency that he should have with the rest of us, and we have frantic meetings trying to keep each other up to date on what he has been doing technically and what we've been doing technically. John's falling behind. We need him to help us on a lot of decisions.'' Responding to Interviewer Walter Cronkite's questioning about...
...Thurs., Sept. 13 Our Next Man in Space (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A filmed profile of Astronaut Wal ter Schirra Jr., who is scheduled to make the next space flight, a six-orbit...