Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem in the early part of the flight went unreported for several hours. Although the astronauts had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu, Borman soon became ill with another variety that caused him to vomit and suffer diarrhea. Borman elected not to discuss his illness over the public communications channel. As a result, NASA's medical staff did not hear about his problem until Houston technicians finally played the tape...
...there. They asked me to take over management of Apollo. I probably would have liked some time to think about it, but since anyone I might have wanted to consult was already there in the room, there was no point in waiting. I said 'Yes, sir,' and went to work...
...earned a reputation of being reserved and distant. He is not a humorous man, nor one given to poetic fantasies. Yet last week he was as thrilled as any of his five children by the feat of Apollo 8. "I looked at the moon after Apollo 8 went into orbit," he says. "It looked different...
Pamela Powers was not as fortunate as Barbara Jane Mackle. On Christmas Eve, Pamela, 10, went to the Des Moines Y.M.C.A. with her father to watch her brother in a wrestling match. She walked out to the lobby for a candy bar, and disappeared. Two days later, Anthony E. Williams, a self-styled preacher and accused rapist, calmly led police to a roadside ditch eight miles from Des Moines where her frozen body...
Under orders to prevent bloodshed if possible, they ordered the stunned airport crowd away, using bullhorns and speaking in English and Arabic. Then they methodically went from plane to plane-one was a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 just about to depart for Saudi Arabia-at gunpoint ordering passengers to disembark, then planting explosives under the wings. One after another, the aircraft were blasted into fiery mangled metal. For good measure, the commandos also set fire to hangars and oil-storage tanks...