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...approves the payment each year. This year the payment is $43 million--12 per cent of the total District budget. But the Appropriations Committees review the entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children--his special target...
...Supermarkets President Ira Waldbaum, whose 62 New York stores, along with the 100-store Daitch-Shopwell Supermarkets, dropped stamps last month: "We found that the cost of stamps was becoming an excessive burden and they were not as competitive as a few years ago." New York's irrepressible Rep. Emanuel Celler has called for a Congressional investigation of the trading stamp industry...
...actually underestimated the system's efficiency, were surprised that they could get sufficient power with such low pressure and so little oxygen fueling the cells. Had they known this beforehand, they could have permitted Gemini to spend enough power for the planned rendezvous with the Radar Evaluation Pod (REP) that it had previously ejected. By the time they found out, REP's batteries were dead, and it was too late...
...just the right length of time, he gave his craft a "kick in the apogee" and moved it into an even more precise orbit. Curving between 107 and 217 miles above the earth, Gemini was now ready for its next test: release of the 76-Ib. Radar Evaluation Pod (REP). Fitted with bright, flashing lights and radar transponders, the REP would be an orbiting target for a carefully planned attempt to check the techniques of docking vehicles in space...
...even before REP could be released, there was an ominous hint that the mission might be going sour once more. In the final minutes of the first revolution, as Gemini 5 came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control...