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...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 were eventually ironed out, as far as the experts knew, after arduous testing under every conceivable circumstance. Last week's test was billed as the ship's first full "plugs-out" operation- meaning that the craft was to rely solely...
...Davis lives in a modest century-old house in London with his Persian wife Shamsi and their two-month old son. In September, he will become musical director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the youngest conductor ever appointed to the prestigious job. Not surprisingly, he scoffs at the accent on his youth. He insists that he is already experiencing "the odd and beautiful glimpses of objectivity" that come with advancing years. "When you are young you are attacked by music as a disease, and you try to get something out of it that it can't possibly give...
Lolling at the bar of Washington's Congressional Hotel last week, Adam Clayton Powell looked the very picture of cavalier confidence. Back from a two-month sojourn with his comely receptionist on the Bahamian isle of South Bimini, the Harlem Democrat bragged of his angling prowess. "Are you worried?" asked a reporter. Replied Powell: "Do I look it?" What would he say to the Democratic caucus? "I'm going to tell them," he purred, "to keep the faith, baby...
...program got under way, hospitals had 50% of their Medicare forms bounced back because of errors, causing two-month delays in payment and forcing some of them to seek short-term loans from banks...
...that after the first nine putt-putts had been issued to park patrolmen in 1964, muggings dropped by 30% in Manhattan's Central Park, by 40% in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The lesson was not lost; four high-crime precincts were then quickly scooterized. In a recent two-month period, those areas reported the fewest crimes in New York...