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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many progressive Republicans, amateurs and academics, such as the Ripon Society leadership, would find life within Phillips' G.O.P. untenable, as would many working politicians, including Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller, Hugh Scott, Jacob Javits, Charles Percy, George Romney and Edward Brooke. As they see it, the Phillips type of strategy would split the nation. For them, a Republican majority must be broadened along racial, as well as class, lines. They have demonstrated that Republicans can contend for power successfully without abandoning either the cities or the blacks...
...brimful of explosive propellants, to the final splashdown in rolling seas. Perhaps most perilous of all were the maneuvers near and on the moon-if only because they had never before been attempted. As the mission reached its climactic moments and Eagle, the lunar module, was curving down to within a few miles of the moon, Eagle's computer reported: "Program alarm." Eagle's on-board computer was being asked to make too many calculations in the frenetic moments before touchdown. It had begun to balk at having to track Columbia while also making the final descent...
...ascent engine had been test-fired more than 3,000 times, but this was no test. Houston radioed: "You're cleared for takeoff." Replied Aldrin: "Roger, understand. We're No. 1 on the runway." Seconds later, tension dissolved; Eagle was airborne, headed into a lunar orbit. Within four hours, the module had rendezvoused and docked with Columbia on the far side of the moon. Then Armstrong and Aldrin left the LM so quickly that ground controllers, caught by surprise, sounded a bit put out. "You beat us to the punch," groused Mission Control...
Although scientists are fairly certain that the moon supports no life, NASA has taken care to guard against lunar infection. During the homeward voyage, Columbia's environmental-control system circulated the air within the capsule more than 100 times, passing it through special filters. On earth, the precautions were equally stringent. Besides the astronauts, the only persons allowed in the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) were a doctor and an engineer. During the next three days, about all that relieved the tedium was a video-tape replay of the moon walk. The most interested viewer was Collins...
Wrecking Process. The latest round began near the southern entrance to the Suez Canal at a fortified Egyptian rock named Green Island. Within the fort's 25-ft.-high stone walls were radar-controlled antiaircraft batteries, mortars and machine guns manned by 70-odd Egyptian troops; at its tip was a radar tower. It had long been a thorn to the Israelis, and late one night 40 or more Israeli naval commandos set off on the two-mile trip to the island. Silently, they scaled the walls, killed the sentries and then, after a brief but vicious firefight that...