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...Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer 10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
Blind Landing. There is another faction in the space administration that brooks no delays, that favors sending men to the moon without advance in formation about its surface. Wernher von Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...
...absorbing hobby became scientific research. The late Professor Erich von Hoist was experimenting with chickens at the Institute of Behavior Physiology near Munich, and he needed an associate who knew chickens intimately. Von Hoist was so impressed with the country doctor's chicken lore that he started him on an orgy of photography and tape recording...
Divorced. By Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 46, multimillionaire Brazilian playboy: Ira von Furstenburg Pignatari, 23, whose first husband, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 40, dislikes her second so much that he hid their two children until Ira had to choose between her babies and Baby; after three years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Las Vegas...
Born. To Herbert von Karajan, 55, maestro of the Berlin Philharmonic, and French-born Eliette Mouret von Karajan, 28: their second child, second daughter; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...