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Preceding the end of the hour-long vigil, Elmer H. Brown of the Cambridge Friends Meeting asked the crowd to extinguish their candles in the ground and stand for a brief silent vigil. As the smoke rose into the air, Bishop Thomas J. Riley gave the benediction...
Liberal Republicans are a restless lot under the Nixon Administration. To find out what they are thinking, TIME Correspondent Loye Miller last week interviewed two prominent G.O.P, liberals in states that are usually far apart in political philosophy, Iowa and Massachusetts. As might be expected, the Midwesterner-Tom J. Riley, 40, a successful Cedar Rapids lawyer, an eight-year (1961-1968) veteran of the Iowa legislature and an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1968, was happier with Nixon and more willing to give him time to tackle the country's problems. John S. Saloma III, 34, an associate professor...
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...Riley sat at a blinking console in Mission Control, listening in on the space talk and efficiently translating the alphabet soup of acronyms and numbers to newsmen for nine or ten hours at a time. Getting ready before blastoff, he waded through the documents generated by Apollo 10 (a stack of paper more than a foot high) and interviewed the key men involved. For a month before the mission, he spent 30 hours a week watching flight simulations...
...Riley's performance, backed by eight previous flight assignments with Haney, proved to be as smooth as the Apollo liftoff. His visible calm, however, belied the subsurface disputes that have been shaking NASA for the past few months. Until his angry departure last month, Haney, in his role as NASA's public affairs officer, was the man caught in the middle. On one side were the engineers and astronauts, who were determined to maintain as much privacy as possible during the flights. On the other was the press, equally determined to know all about the space shots...