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...long ride from the Kennedy Space Center--all NASA's--back to Cape Kennedy--a military complex with some land used by NASA. Bleachers were set up almost 2 miles from pad 19, where Gemini 7 was to take off (because the fuels used in the Titan rocket are poisonous, everyone, even the photographers, are kept at least 7000 feet from...
...majestic Titan II rocket lifted off precisely on schedule, hurling Gemini 7 toward a new chapter in space exploration. Five minutes after Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell Jr. took off, a ground controller exclaimed: "You're right down the slot!" Command Pilot Borman radioed back: "That's the best thing I've heard...
...victory was a fairly auspicious start to the Crimson's season. New Hampshire is no titan of the hoop world, to be sure, but Harvard shot well and committed surprisingly few ball-handling errors for an early-season game. And coach Floyd Wilson seems to have come up with a couple of good players in sophomore Bob Beller and George Neville...
...Titan with Warts. What has been badly needed to give form and focus to the Goethe revival is an important new biography, and Critic Richard Friedenthal has now provided it. In his Goethe (World; $8.50), a best seller in German and the first major book about Goethe to be published in English in nearly 20 years, he takes a hard cold look at the legendary giant of German literature, and he sees, along with a startling collection of warts, a man of universal genius...
Best Treated. The report on Aerospace's activities, a product of eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers...