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Apollo 8's unblemished success and its safe return prompted Air Force Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, the Apollo program director, to announce that Apollo 9 had been scheduled for a Feb. 28 launch date. On that flight, a three-man team headed by Astronaut James Mc-Divitt will orbit the earth and practice rendezvous and docking with the problem-plagued Lunar Module (LM), which has not yet been tested in manned flight...
...previous tours of duty in Government. Iowa-born and Harvard-educated, the 52-year-old economist worked for the Commerce Department and later for the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank before joining Michigan's faculty in 1948. Nixon became acquainted with McCracken when he was a member of the three-man Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1959. After he returned to Michigan, McCracken befriended a number of educators, auto company executives and newspaper publishers, some of whom dine with him every month in an informal club, relish his summations of the economic outlook. Since Election...
...three-man write-in slate for the SFAC--Samuel Z. Goldhaper, James T. Healy, and Thomas Price--denounced both the HUC and the SFAC elections, charging inadequate publicity, improper handling of the ballots by candidates, and illegal voting before and after Wednesday, the official voting...
...Soviets took an equally big lead in manned flights. Yuri Gagarin orbited in Vostok I more than a month before Kennedy's 1961 speech, and ten months before the U.S. could place John Glenn in orbit in Mercury 6. Russian cosmonauts also compiled an enviable list of other space records: first woman in orbit, first two-man crew, first three-man crew and first space walk...
...mission to the moon, Apollo 8 will carry a three-man crew that is unusually well qualified, both by experience and temperament, for the pioneering flight: they are Veterans Frank Borman and James Lovell, both 40, and Rookie William Anders...