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...Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional Saturn 5s, the money will be just enough to ward off protracted delays in manufacture. Says Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager George Low: "This summer is our last chance to establish a new goal with continuity...
...past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year. The hospital's 36-bed mental ward, which previously was inadequate to the demand, is seldom full today...
...fill a $15,000 job. Rather than pay such bounties, Loral Corp., a Scarsdale, N.Y., electronics firm, offers a color television set to any employee recommending an engineer who remains with the company for at least three months. Marcor, Inc., formed by the merger of Montgomery Ward and Container Corp. of America, awards $100 merchandise credits to employees who help recruit new data processors and secretaries...
...immigrant junk dealer, St. Louis-born Wolfson rose to prominence during the '50s by expanding Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a heavy-construction company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Campbell, the Nazi was criminal and star of Mother Night, visits this book's protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, in Dresden to deliver one of the best passages in the book, a critique of the American fightingman. Eliot Roseater, of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater fame, shares a mental hospital ward and his favorite author with Pilgrim. Ilium, N.Y., hometown of Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, makes its third appearance in that role. And, finally, various progeny and siblings of Winston Niles Rumford, co-star of The Sirens of Titan, motorboat past Billy Pilgrim's bedroom window on his wedding night...