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This week, for the first time in the history of space flight, astronauts are scheduled to be sent into orbit for the express purpose of performing a major repair on a stricken ship. If all goes according to plan, Skylab's three crew members will be launched this Friday (at 9 a.m., E.D.T.) from Cape Kennedy in the same Apollo command ship that was to have carried them up to join Skylab last week. After nearly five revolutions around the earth, Astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr., Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz will rendezvous with the space laboratory, examine...
Hampered by the absence of bronchitis- stricken hurdler Dewey Hicman, Harvard collected 41 points to place a distant third in the meet. Penn with 82 points managed to slip past Navy with 80 points to win the heptagonals...
McCurdy said yesterday that despite the absence of top high hurdler Dewey Hickman, sidelined with what could be bronchitis, and the weakened physical condition of runners Nick Leone and Bill Ockerman stricken with colds, the Crimson still stands an excellent chance of capturing third in the heptagonals...
...Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization is coordinating an airlift to bring more than 400,000 tons of grain to the stricken nations. This is a stopgap measure at best. U.S. officials in Dakar estimate that grain gifts may have to continue for another 30 years. They also believe that it may take three decades to build irrigation and reforestation projects to contain the desert-assuming that the poverty-stricken sub-Saharan nations can find the billions necessary...
Infinitely more painful for the physician than denying a coma-stricken patient a vegetable existence is telling an outwardly active one that he cannot afford to live. Artificial kidney machines have proved the first example of a lifesaving treatment whose staggering cost had prevented widespread use. Sessions are long and painful, and the relief is only temporary, but for those who have had their kidneys destroyed by disease, it is the only alternative to a transplantation or death. Before adequate Federal funding was available, doctors in the field had to decide who would be one of the thousands...