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Tuesday, August 27 Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "To the Moon and Beyond . . ." a discussion by Dr. Wernher von Braun of the U.S. space effort...
...named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self-confessed wolf" with "the morals of a tomcat"; Harvey Combe, 37. onetime press officer at London's Savoy Hotel; Baron Sigismund von Braun. 52, brother of Rocket Scientist Wernher, who was counselor of West Germany's London embassy until 1958, and is now his government's U.N. observer in New York; and an unidentified partner who had been photographed in the nude with the duchess. The judge did not spare the duke, who, he said, admitted that...
...people to be interested in moon rockets and such stuff-there at Alabama's Huntsville space center was former first magnitude Film Star Gloria Swanson, 6.4, hearing all about other worlds from a man she had long admired, Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Broun, 51. "I felt self-conscious taking his time," said Gloria. "If you're a woman, people think you have feathers in your head, especially if you're from Hollywood. But I poked around asking what's this, how does that work, what's that little green thing? It was fascinating...
...many observing instruments as could be squeezed in. Tests were run on every part, arguments raged. Pickering presided calmly and quietly over the melee. He commuted back and forth to NASA's Washington headquarters on the night plane, the "Red Eye," carrying reassurance in both directions. Says Dr. Wernher von Braun of Pickering's administrative style: "His most outstanding characteristic is his ability to lead that most difficult breed of men. the scientists. They can be exceptionally pigheaded. You have to give them enough rope to argue their views. If Bill tried to run a very tight show...
...Houston, home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought we were in a race. My God, we've got guys going out of their minds down here trying to get things going." » At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Saturn Boss Wernher von Braun warned: "We cannot allow things to slow down any more than they have...