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...mission planners were still faced with a number of agonizing decisions. How could they best bring the distressed spacecraft home as quickly as possible but with a minimum of risk? A "deep-space abort"?turning the spacecraft around before it reached the moon and sending it back to earth???was obviously beyond the power of the lunar module's small descent engine. Odyssey's big propulsion engine, in the service module, was powerful enough to turn Apollo in midflight, but Houston was reluctant to try using it. Controllers were concerned that the engine might have been damaged...
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH??? Morley Callaghan?Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father...
...platform in a bare Manhattan hall last Sunday sat the divinely inspired Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 750,000 saints on earth???Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
Vienna is the most suicidal city on earth???58 per 100,000 (1930 figures). Next rank Hamburg 51.1, Shanghai (foreign settlement) 46.6, Berlin 42.2, Brussels 40.9. Havana 38.3, Budapest 35.7, Leningrad 35.3, Warsaw...
There are certain U. S. artists who concentrate on painting the wild places of the earth???deserts, jungles, arctic waste. Last week two groups of such painters appeared in the news...