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The men became excited over small mounds sticking up out of the ground.
"It looks like a small volcano," Conrad said. "It's about four feet high and five feet across. There's a couple of them out here."
As they plodded the moon's light gravity—one-sixth that of earth—their bulky white space- suits became coated with the dust they kicked up with every step. "Hey, you're dirty." Conrad
"Hey, you're dirty." Conrad told Bean.
"You're just as dirty," Bean replied. "I can't believe it."
The $78,833 color camera had troubles in the final weeks before launch. Black interference turned up on screens during tests and
The space agency said the television imaging tube had burned out.
the camera was modified until it appeared the problem was indicated.
Technicians devised procedures to get more light through the lens to the tube and the space agency said "later today, time permitting, mission control will pass along these instructions to the crew."
A spokesman for the Westinghouse Corp., builder of the camera, said these steps might result in a "vague image" that would probably be in black and white instead of color. He said there was a 50-50 chance of getting some kind of fuzzy picture.
The problem was caused when the astronauts pointed the camera directly into the sun.
Bean became so frustrated with its malfunction that he slammed it on top a couple of times with a hammer but to no avail. The loss of the color pictures was a setback to geologists as well as a disappointment to the astronauts' families and those watching.
After they got the experiment package operating, the astronauts set out to explore their surroundings.
"We're looking down at this crater now and it looks rather old." Bean radioed to earth.
Conrad picked up one rock he
described as "more the gabbro type," a larger grained rock.
"Look at that. We've got to have that piece of glass," he said a minute later. And he asked Bean to "come on, hold my hand" while he bent down to pick it up.
"It looks like a piece of glass.
Looks green to me," he said.
"Pete and Al, we're picking up your heavy footprints going by the seismometer," ground control told the two astronauts who were clowning like tourists, taking pictures and exclaiming about everything they saw.
Near the end of their moonwalk the astronauts' heavy breathing could be heard.
"We're not going to have any
trouble sleeping tonight," Bean said.
Conrad stepped onto the surface at 6:45 a.m. EST and called out:
"Oh, you'll never believe it. Look what I see sitting on the side of the crater."
"The old Surveyor?" asked Bean.
"The old Surveyor. Yes sir. Ha-ha, doesn't that look neat. It couldn't be any further than 600 feet from here. How about that."
A major goal of Conrad and Bean's second spacewalk is a visit to the Surveyor 3. Both men were delighted they had landed within 600 feet of it—easy walking distance.
Haynsworth vote to come Friday
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate decided Tuesday to vote at 1 p.m. Friday on the controversial Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr.
The decision came after Republicans relented in their demand for delay and agreed to a showdown Friday on President Nixon's choice to succeed Associate Justice Abe Fortas.
Democratic leader Mike Mansfield got unanimous consent from a nearly empty chamber to conclude the three-month controversy after a day of back-stage maneuvering.
Sen. Roman Hruska, R-Neb., had insisted that the vote be delayed until Monday to give Haynsworth's supporters additional time to speak in his behalf. There was no immediate explanation why Hruska then backed down and agreed with Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott on a Friday vote.
Hruska told newsmen there was no intention of using a delay to try to gain more votes for confirmation. "I will not indulge in any numbers game with you, but we have the votes to confirm," he said.
Sen. Ralph Tyler Smith, R-Ill., who took the seat of the late Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, switched positions Tuesday and announced he would vote for Haynsworth. This gave Nixon's nominee 41 proclaimed supporters and 46 opponents in a UPI talley, with 13 senators undeclared.
Smith, who originally said he would vote against Haynsworth because of doubts arising from conflict-of-interest charges, said a review of the record indicated "they do not constitute a valid reason for opposing the nomination."
BSU president calls Chancellor's reply to blacks' demands vague, unspecific
(Continued from page 1) that the dean of black students would not only be equal to the chancellor, but would have powers superior to his, including some authority denied the chancellor.
Bright called the proposed administrative positions necessary.
"We don't see it as two separate universities," he said. "We have to have someone in the administration somewhere who addresses the needs of black students."
Bright said he had hoped the BSU could start interviewing persons to fill these two positions sometime next semester, possibly by February.
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The BSU, he said, was already handling a tutoring program and obtaining scholarships for black students, tasks which should be carried out by the administration.
Bright said it was difficult to say whether or not this demand would be met.
"First we got to get him to be more specific," he said. "There is some hangup about how these positions fit into the structure of the University."
He said he doubted if the Chancellor would flatly refuse any of the demands but they might have to be modified. He added, however, that the BSU
would continue to press the demands as essential to black students.
Asked about the status of the Afro-American Institute Bright referred to Chalmers statement in the letter that this demand and the BSU's position was not clearly understood.
Bright said he doubted that Malcolm X Hall would even be considered until four or five years from now because of the Chancellor's statement concerning the tremendous need for space during the next ten years.
Chalmers suggested the BSU bring it's demand for a black disciplinary board to try all black students before the Student Senate Executive Committee.
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Both Haynsworth's backers and foes predicted the outcome would be extremely close.
Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., Haynsworth's chief sponsor, told the Senate that "if the Senate were to vote this very minute, perhaps a majority would not vote to coform." He said he hoped to convert some senators during debate.
Hollings accused Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., who led the Haynsworth opposition, of arguing his case on television before senators had a chance to study both sides of the controversy. Because of the "onrush of the news media," he said, "the debate was over before it began."
Hollings said senators who accused Haynsworth of unethical judicial conduct were masking their real reasons, which he said were philosophical and political.
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