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WASHINGTON: Another of the high-flying seven has fallen. Alan Shepard, who in 1961 became the first American in space and, a decade after that, perhaps rescued the space program from oblivion, died Tuesday night at age 74. "There are few people with a more exalted place in the pantheon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. "He was the first. But even more remarkable was his second trip." After 10 years on the ground with ear trouble, Shepard was 47 in 1971 when, with very little training, he took the Apollo 14 lunar module back up -- and spent 33 hours...
...hate buying new stuff that I have to bring from home," says Cassim C. Shepard '01, "And I'm always open to a bargain...
Just then, Tazewell Shepard, the naval aide who was holding a telephone, called out, "Mr. President, Mr. President, Colonel on the line." Kennedy's whole demeanor changed. With a lilting, joyous tone, he shouted his greetings to Glenn. Then, after five or so minutes of congratulations and chitchat, he gave the phone back to Shepard, stalked back to me and resumed the attack...
...actress doesn't regard Jackie Brown as a comeback. "I never was away," says Grier, who lives in Colorado and has appeared in regional theater productions of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson."I was honing my skills for when that Quentin Tarantino call would come...
...living in the Yard and all River Houses except Mather and Dunster vote at the Broadway St. Fire Station; Mather and Dunster residents vote at the Corporal Burns Playground on Banks St.; those living on Walker St. with street numbers under 90, or on the even numbered side of Shepard St., vote at the Harvard Epworth Church; and those on Walker St. with street number over 90 or on the odd numbered side of Shepard St. vote at the Peabody School on Linnaean...