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...Intact. Though the Apollo's engine achieved 10% less power than expected, the capsule still blazed into the atmosphere at nearly 19,000 m.p.h. and a temperature of 4,000°, fastest and hottest yet for any returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
...Brigade had its breathing room-and 70 confirmed Viet Cong dead-in its first grim testing of the war. It may also have the war's second Medal of Honor winner: Specialist Fourth Class Daniel Fernandez of New Mexico, who died after jumping on a grenade to shield its blast from five buddies...
Radcliffe Freshman Chorus; HDC; Leverett House Opera Society; Radcliffe Shield; Radcliffe Choral Society - Secretary - Treasurer; Memorial Church Choir...
President of Radcliffe Shield; PBH settlement house work; Briggs Hall Social Chairman; Briggs Representative to South House Committee; member of Junior Parents' Week-end Committee...
South House President, RGA Rules Committee; Radcliffe Shield; Briggs Hall Work Chairman; Briggs Representative to South House Committee; PBH, Mental Hospitals and Roosevelt Towers...