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...reflects Houston's pride in private enterprise and self-reliance by saying: "I am not one to run to Washington with my hand out." The only one of the five mayors who opposes a Federal Urban Affairs Department, he welcomes the Government's presence in a limited sphere: NASA's decision to move its astronaut program to Houston, which inspired the Chamber of Commerce to subtitle the city "Space Center, U.S.A...
Cunningham nearly lost his audience at intermission, though, by running a piece like Aeon first on the program. Aeon was long: over a half-hour of posturing that looked more like a technique class than a dance, with each dancer exercising in his own private sphere, hardly seeing, not caring, what his partners were doing. Cunningham's technique of "choreography by chance" picked the wrong random combination of numbers this time and came up with a series of stiff, unrelated movements that took rather more muscle than grace...
Last week, as police recovered the last of the bodies (all but one have been found), the most vital piece of wreckage was dredged from nine feet of water-the 7O7s flight recorder, a basketball-sized sphere containing important information on the plane's flight path. The rest of the pieces-shattered engines, crumpled spars, smashed pumps and instrument panels-are not much larger...
Whatever the cause of the tragedy, the answers might be stored in a large yellow sphere resembling a basketball: the shockproof automatic flight recorder carried by all jetliners to record moment-to-moment data on a plane's altitude, speed, gravity forces and direction. But after two days, the flight recorder of American One had not been found, and it may keep its secrets hidden forever in the muck of Jamaica...
...international sphere, the conference cited several ways that a civil defense program might inhibit effective foreign policy...