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...allegories. These are sophisticated and profound works. They also have intriguingly enigmatic features, which keep the viewer standing in front of the canvases for a long time. Favoring subdued colors, Smith has executed these oils with complete technical assurance. They would do credit to a master at the peak of his career, and the fact that a twenty-year-old produced them is all but unbelievable...
Sputnik, but spending has already declined from its 1966 peak of $5.9 billion. Wernher Von Braun, whose team was responsible for the Saturn boosters, argues that unless the nation embarks on another Apollo-size program, the U.S. stands to suffer a "tragic loss of a national asset." He fears that NASA's skilled engineers and scientists may be dispersed after the last of the nine remaining Apollo missions is flown in 1972. The space team has already shrunk from 400,000 in 1966 to 140,000 today, and the group might be difficult to rebuild. "To continue to attract...
ASIDE from its value in terms of national prestige and scientific knowledge, the U.S. space effort has yielded some important-if not always immediately measurable -benefits on earth. The most obvious fallout has been economic. At its peak in 1966, Apollo employed 400,000 people, from Long Island to Seattle. The technological impact has been less conspicuous. But in scarcely more than a decade, research has produced hundreds of what NASA calls "space technology transfers" that apply everywhere from factory to surgical ward...
Hitting His Peak. Counsilman's counsel paid off. "I think the guys on the team liked me right away," says Mark, "and they avoided talking about the Olympics." Mark moved into a dormitory with George Smith, another Olympian, pledged Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, earned A's for attitude as well as in his studies. "It was just a matter of growing up," says Counsilman. "College has given him the chance to mingle with contemporaries for the first time, and he has turned out to be one of the most popular guys on the team...
...rate Spitz is going, Counsilman reckons he may get another chance to stroke for Olympic gold-even though he will be 22, ancient by swimming standards, when the Munich games roll around. Says Counsilman: "He should just be hitting his peak by 1972." Spitz, of course, wants nothing more than another try. "Everything I do now is geared to 1972," he says. "I don't want another Mexico City...