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Fateful Vacation. He went on to build more houses, buy apartments, acquire theaters and take over the regional Wurlitzer jukebox distributorship. By the time World War II hit, Wilson was rich. But he sold out everything for $250,000, joined the Air Transport Command and piloted C-47s over the Himalayan hump, probably the hairiest air route of the war. After being mustered out, he bought an Orange Crush distributorship, but it soured, and he lost $100,000. So he went back to construction and built a fortune of about $1,000,000, all the while sharpening his skills...
...called docking module. To be built by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $50 million and carried aloft in the second stage of the Saturn booster, the cylinder-10 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter-will be pulled from the booster by the Apollo command ship. In position between Apollo and Soyuz during the docking, it will act as an essential decompression chamber for men passing from Soyuz's "normal" atmosphere of 70% nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure of 14.7 Ibs. p.s.i.) to Apollo's low-pressure (5 Ibs. p.s.i.) atmosphere of pure...
...entire issue of Angola, Gulf Oil, and Harvard's relationship to both. And, we are of the opinion that every proxy decision of the Corporation should be taken only after a community-wide discussion. Such decisions should not be the prerogative of a few individuals who hold the command posts in this institution...
Moral Growth. At 6 ft. 4 in., Bun ting has what is called "command pres ence." The son of a Haverford, Pa., real estate man, he was expelled from Penn sylvania's Hill School for "general trou-blemaking," and then, at 17, enlisted in the Marines. After two years, he en rolled at Virginia Military Institute, graduated in 1963 as first captain and third in a class of 1 85. He won a Rhodes scholarship and studied modern British history at Oxford, then settled down to a military career...
Born. To Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., 36, command pilot on the Apollo 16 mission, and Elizabeth Mattingly; their first child, a son; in Texas City, Texas Name: Thomas Kenneth...