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Dates: during 1960-1969
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News from Grissom began to be relayed over the control-room loudspeaker. He felt fine, and all systems were working properly. At T plus 141 sec., officials told the waiting crowd that Liberty Bell 7 had separated successfully from the Redstone booster. The crowd clapped and yelled. Grissom looked out through his four-pane "picture window"-a new feature of the capsule-but was at first too dazzled to see much. "Boy," he reported, "that sun is really bright." Later he saw the clouded coastline far below, watched the sky grow blacker-and became so fascinated with the view that...
...Soviet meet, the U.S. team was in high key, and the two-day competition produced performances of a caliber rarely seen in a non-Olympic year. Willowy Wilma Rudolph tied her world record of 11.3 sec. in the 100-meter dash, anchored the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team to a new world mark of 44.3 sec. Frank Budd swept to a big victory in the men's 100 meters, and helped the men's relay team set another world record, of 39.1 sec. Gary Gubner, muscular 18-year-old New York University freshman, established himself...
...pattern in Germany was similar, but performances were generally poorer -except for Wilma Rudoloh's new record clocking of 11.2 sec. in the 100 meters. Bespectacled Ironman Hayes Jones, 22, of Pontiac, Mich., recalled the days when versatile Harrison Dillard won his specialty-the 110-meter high hurdles-with ease, ran an excellent leg for the winning U.S. 400-meter relay team, then filled in for ailing Sprinter Paul Drayton and placed second in the 100-meter dash. Biggest surprise of the German meet: Sprinter Frank Budd's defeat in the 200 meters by Germany's Manfred...
...hearings were the first real tip-off to the temper of Chairman Cary, 50, a Yaleman ('31) and onetime (1938-40) SEC counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
...SEC is highly likely to get the money for its general investigation, but the question that bothers Wall Streeters is how the commission will ever find the time or the staff-even with $750,000-to handle so big a job. In his testimony before the subcommittee. New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston argued that the heavily policed Big Board does not need probing and opposed any overall investigation. "We think it would be unwise," Funston said, "to direct the SEC to undertake broad new studies if these will divert its energy from the inquiries presently under...