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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacecraft have their own personal quirks, and 204 had been balky from the start. As an Apollo engineer said: "The first article from the factory cannot come out without birth pains." The spacecraft gave repeated trouble. The nozzle of its big engine shattered during one test. The heat shield of the command module split wide open and the ship sank like a stone when it was dropped at high speed into a water tank. Certain kinds of fuel caused ruptures in attitude-control fuel tanks. The cooling system failed, causing a two-month delay for redesign. But all the bugs...
...Start of the Affair. Because of Johnson's admonition, together with the fact that he was not licensed to practice law in Washington, Baker said, he arranged to have over $30,000 in fees from his clients made out in checks payable to a Washington lawyer friend instead of to himself. Thus Bobby denied the Government's contention that the setup was meant to evade taxes on influence-peddling deals...
...TIME, Jan. 27)-money that the Government charged he largely diverted to his own use. Under cross-examination by Justice Department Attorney William Bittman, Baker told of buying stock some 15 years ago in the Oklahoma millionaire's Kerr-McGee Corp. He testified: "That would be the first start of any relationship that I had with the Senator, because he said, 'If you can't borrow it yourself, I will secure the funds...
...first cousin and archrival, Norman Manley, 73, who leads the People's National Party, denounced the snap election as a "rape of democracy," since candidates would have only three weeks instead of the customary six in which to campaign. The politicking got off to a turbulent start when toughs at a rally of Bustamante's Jamaica Labor Party began tossing rocks and hit the Minister of Development and Welfare on the head. The politicking is also apt to get pretty turbulent within Bustamante's own party, where a four-way fight is shaping up to pick...
...spends $1 billion a year on expansion. - IBM might ask, "What fourth-quarter slump?" since its profits were up 13%, to a record $142 million. For the year, it had its 15th earnings record in a row, with $526 million for a 10% rise over 1965. But because of start-up costs for its System/360 computers, earnings have lagged behind sales, which rose 19%, to $4.2 billion. To increase in come, IBM has cut the 360's purchase price by 3% to speed sales, raised its rental fee 3% to expand revenues. > Xerox also bounded to its 15th successive...