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Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise...
...while alone in orbit around the moon. If the mission were delayed until the next practical launch date, May 9, the extra cost would be $800,000 and there might also be some deterioration of the Saturn systems. In contrast, there was the possibility of replacing Mattingly with his back-up crewman, John Swigert, who was found to have immunity against rubella. But Swigert had trained only with the back-up crew and there was doubt that he could properly coordinate with Lovell and Haise on such short notice. Said Astronaut Chief "Deke" Slayton: "It was sort of like trying...
...develop in this spring's team the discipline which has been so absent in recent years. Recently, while the Crimson was doing its daily 100 jumping jacks someone got out of step on number 75, and Regan had everyone start all over again. "He's a great drilling instructor." back-up goalie Brian Landry said...
...with the season only seven days away, DeMichele is once again the team's back-up third baseman. He is being pushed hard for the starting job by sophomore Mike Thomas. "He's doing a really great job and I've got my hands full," DeMichele said...
Yale has two outstanding freestylers-John Nelson and Mike Cadden-and excellent men in each of the specialty strokes, as well as great back-up strength. Harvard's ability to score will depend on how much Yale coach Phil Moriarty uses his best...