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JOHN V. LINDSAY is an athletic, blue-eyed Republican who has no business being mayor of New York City. Before November 2nd, 1965, a politician with any respect for his own judgement would have found it hard to imagine any Republican - much less a WASP-as mayor. But Lindsay, on a platform pledged to good government and an end to partisan politics, wriggled into City Hall on the back of the most massive defection of Democratic and independent voters the Republican party had seen since the days of Fiorello H. LaGuardia...
...faith. For example, those special engines that play such an important part in Goerner's closely cut puzzler were no secret at all. On the day after Earhart's plane went down, the New York Times reported that the Electra was equipped with two of the latest Wasp engines, capable of cruising speeds well over 200 m.p.h...
...Last WASP in the World under lines Fiedler's conviction that the basic tone of U.S. creative intellectual life has become Jewish. He takes a poet, fashionable yesterday, hopelessly square today-a gangling, bearded figure of Protestant, romantic, outgoing, Western America-and sticks him in a Jewish wedding in New Jersey. The ushers are all Ph.D.s in physics, and the guests, if they are not Jewish, pretend to be on grounds of intellectual prestige. The poet hero, doomed to an academic lecture circuit where he recites his now-hackneyed verses, is the husband of one and the official lover...
...whole world has you in sight," answered a communicator aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp...
...first time in the U.S. manned-space program, a returning spacecraft was landing close enough to the recovery carrier to permit television coverage of its splashdown. Cameras on the deck of the Wasp picked up Gemini as soon as it loomed below the clouds, photographed its recovery by the carrier, and sent the telecast live via Early Bird satellite into millions of American and European homes. For Stafford and Co-pilot Eugene Cernan, who came "right down the pickle barrel"-within four miles of the Wasp-it was a rewarding finish to a flight that had been marred by failure...