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...contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora and fauna, and the geography of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. He was 80 before he finally retired, and even then he lost none of his zest for adventure into the unknown. Three years ago, Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. asked the admiral whether he might be available for a moon trip: "Damn right," replied MacMillan...
...five giant computers are working at a sharply reduced rate (operating cost: about $10,000 per hour), one of the two mission-control centers has been put in mothballs, and astronauts have been asked to cut back their pilot training flights in T-38 jets. Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard has publicly worried whether his ship will be properly prepared for next January's tentatively scheduled moon shot...
...line. Next, Wells. Rich turned out a print and television campaign for American Motors Corp. that focused on Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. stressing the moderate prices of AMC models lined up behind him. Soon other chief executives, including TransAmerica's John Beckett. TRW's Horace Armor Shepard and A-T-O Inc.'s Harry Figgie Jr., turned up in their companies' print ads. Not to be outdone, J. Walter Thompson has just produced a Pan American World Airways ad with an oversize photo of President Najeeb Halaby, who seeks public support for a cut-rate youth...
...attraction of the pavilion-and the fair-is a moon rock brought back by Apollo astronauts. The crowds are also taken with an Andy Granatelli turbocar and, in baseball-crazy Japan, by Babe Ruth's old Yankee uniform and locker. The space display is understated and effective. Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft, Gemini 12 and the command module of Apollo 8 are suspended just above visitors' heads; a lunar landing vehicle perches like a water bug near the moon rock. There is plenty of Pop art, courtesy of Andy Warhol and sundry American artists...
...Undergraduate Education, we offer the following nine questions for consideration by the entire Harvard community. The substance of the questions indicates the scope of our own thinking and suggests possible alternatives to the present system. We encourage comments on these questions from any source, addressed to Kate Ecker, 53 Shepard Street...