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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the spectacular rendezvous and spacewalk shots they took early in the flight (see color pictures), the astronauts conducted photographic experiments designed for the study of earth resources. With four electrically synchronized cameras, they shot pictures of selected areas in the Southwest U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Brazil. Using different filters and film sensitive to a variety of wave lengths of light, the cameras actually saw more of the earth than meets...
From Apollo's infra-red pictures, for example, scientists will be able to distinguish the location of diseased vegetation in areas of healthy growth. On film recording only green light, which best penetrates water, they will be able to see the bottom contours of rivers, lakes and shallow coastal waters...
Calm Waters. While taking their pictures from a 281-by-113-mile elliptical orbit, the astronauts could see whitecaps in the ocean site southwest of Bermuda that had been chosen for their landing. The weather in the recovery area was so bad, in fact, that controllers avoided mentioning it to the astronauts until McDivitt asked...
...their reporters set down uncomplimentary facts about the police and the mayor." But post-conventian coverage was something else. After out-of-town newsmen left Chicago, the Review claimed, "Mayor Daley was permitted to take over the media. Our own editorialists told us that we didn't really see what we saw under those blue helmets." The Review charged that the American had interviewed Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk about the disorders, then let him edit the resulting story...
...more precisely, the quarter of it. By cashing in on a select few of the hundreds of requests for movies, books, testimonials and guest appearances, Barnes figures that O.J. will soon be earning three times as much as he will playing football. This summer, for instance, TV viewers will see Simpson break into the clear in a new Chevy, the first of a series of commercials for which Chevrolet is paying him a reported...