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Although there are plans to trim the White House staff by half, its top operators will stay on the job. H.R. Haldeman will remain as Assistant to the President, chief of the White House staff and policy coordinator. His second in command, John Ehrlichman, will continue to preside over the Domestic Council, which is handling such problems as drug abuse, crime, health research and the energy crisis-a matter of top priority in the second term. Ehrlichman is in the midst of compiling a report on the subject...
According to crewmen, tensions began to mount on the Kitty Hawk almost as soon as Captain Marland W. Townsend Jr. took command in June. Formal and aloof, Townsend replaced Owen Oberg, a popular commanding officer who was given to moving among his crew and not above on occasion going over the side of the ship in a bosun's chair to wield a symbolic chip hammer. "He treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions...
...Commander Ronald Evans, 39, Apollo 17's third crew member, is also a Navy flyer. In fact, he and Cernan were studying together at the Navy's Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 1963 when Cernan learned that he had been accepted by NASA and Evans was told that he had been turned down (he made it three years later). "That night," Evans recalls, "Gene and I went out and got totally sloshed." Born in the Kansas wheat-belt town of St. Francis, where his father worked for a wheat-silage company, Evans was an Eagle Scout...
Briggs took command of his match from the start, aggressively pounding the front wall with long drives while ubiquitously gliding across the court to return Smith's best shots...
...judgment with which they approach the sundry causes thrown up to us by activist groups, it seems sure that the Administration would have given in to their demands at least in part, and education at the University would have suffered. If we consider the kind of changes likely to command support from vocal students, on the basis of causes popular at other universities, we see that their neglect of these possibilities is benign...