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...pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...
...history of mankind's progress, the conquest of space symbolizes one of man's oldest, most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward H. White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Roger B. Chaffee, 31; in an explosion while testing their Apollo spacecraft; at Cape Kennedy, Fla. (see THE NATION...
...Mourning Becomes Electra for its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in March, as well as Laurence Rosenthal's new musical, Sherry, for its opening in Boston in two weeks. More than just a copy cat, Arnstein not only translates Stravinsky's fuzzy pencilings and Virgil Thomson's smudges into readable music, but also extracts and copies the music for each instrument, calculates the appropriate rests so that a player can turn the page without getting tangled in his instrument, and writes in all the cues. Beyond that, he clarifies the symbols, catches wrong notes...
Chrysler's new president will be Virgil E. Boyd, a Townsend protégé who, at 54, is seven years older than his boss. Boyd has held Chrysler's No. 3 slot-vice president in charge of domestic sales and production-ever since Townsend lured him from a similar position at American Motors in 1962. He will bring to his new job a strong suit in marketing experience and a close rapport with auto salesmen...