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...Yankee Clipper capsized as it hit the water, the astronauts quickly righted their craft by inflating three large flotation bags attached to its tip. Lifted aboard the aircraft carrier by helicopter, the crew was hustled into the same mobile quarantine van that housed the men of Apollo 11. Soon afterward, they were cheered by a call from President Nixon, who told the three Navy commanders that he was promoting them to captain. That made the 37-year-old Al Bean the Navy's youngest to attain the rank...
...courtly scion of four generations of South Carolina lawyers, who grows camellias for a hobby, Haynsworth had little stomach for the fight. He received the news of his rejection in his characteristically quiet manner, and with some relief: "The ordeal of the past two months has ended," he said afterward. Haynsworth said he was going to consider if he should resign his present judgeship...
...left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine gunner in World War I. Afterward, he was one of a few who helped organize a farm workers' union when the bad times came. Despite the union, the economic gap between landowner and laborer today in Akenfield is about what it was in Victorian times. With land prices above ?300 an acre, a man on wages has no hope...
...courier carrying secret microfilm. Nabbed by Communist agents on one such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward: "I've been butted around before in Hollywood and on Broadway -but never as accurately as by those goats...
...popularize yet another weird acronym -SALT, for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The first round of sessions, lasting perhaps only a few weeks, will concentrate not on real issues but primarily on setting an agenda and other preliminaries. If neither side makes unreasonable demands, substantive bargaining could begin soon afterward. Despite the belated Russian response, Secretary of State William Rogers terms the Soviets "serious" in their desire to negotiate. There is reason to hope, then, that the tedium of setting up ground rules will be kept to a minimum and that the Helsinki talks really signal what Rogers calls "possibly...