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Florida's briny ocean winds ceaselessly whine through the deserted tower on Cape Canaveral's Pad 14, where John Glenn rocketed into space on Feb. 20, 1962, to become the first American to orbit the earth. The spindly tower sways under the gusts, and bits of rusting steel are flecked into the jumble of weeds and decaying cables entwined around its feet...
...beaches near by, where thousands once stood to cheer man's reach to the moon, loggerhead turtles have taken over again. Rattlesnakes sun themselves on the empty launching pads lining the cape. Small white-tailed deer dart into clearings to feed, and bull alligators bellow in vain for the battalions of space workers who used to feed them marshmallows and jelly doughnuts. On Pad 19, from which Gemini astronauts rose on ten missions to perfect the techniques of rendezvous and docking, the bright orange tower lies useless, flat on its back. The once-gleaming white room where Gemini spacemen...
TIME Correspondent David De Voss, who joined Starship's pampered passenger list last week, notes that for harassed entertainers who book into a different city every day and usually stay up most of the night after their gig, Starship is a pad away from home. Moreover, as Organist Jon Lord of Deep Purple-a heavy metal group that has booked Starship for five weeks-points out: "On regular airlines, there are always queues for flights, overbooking, lost luggage and canceled connecting flights. This tour already has less frantic a feel." And what commercial airline would allow its passengers...
...lengthy interviews for two years. Recently he has relented somewhat and last month agreed to a series of conversations with TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. As a rule, Walton avoids those he considers "intruders and aggressors" by retreating to a small, private world. The center of that world is his pad, a large room attached to a garage on the Brentwood estate of a U.C.L.A. fan. Pool and sauna privileges are included in the $125-a-month rent...
...coaches fret about devising a winning strategy, Essick has had to contrive ways of keeping his team's margin of victory within reason. The opposition has to score some points. Shutting out your opponent in a swimming meet is analogous to keeping your basketball regulars in the game to pad a 50 point fourth quarter lead. It's an unnecessary show of strength. Besides, it's bad for public relations...