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Mussolini issues order for unification of productive forces by Natl Council of Corps; powers extended expected to rid Govt of remaining vestiges of parliamentary system
Results of election; corrected returns; Hitler calls on Hindenburg; latter thanks him for consummating unity of German people; Hitler issues proclamation of thanks to workers; pol amnesty expected
Considered for post of U S Atty, Southern Dist of N Y
Duke Philip Albert of Wurttemberg arrested by Nazis for failure to vote
1933Fred Haise, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut[†]
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing was aborted en route. Haise flew five Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977. He retired from NASA in 1979. He is the last surviving crew member of Apollo 13 and the last surviving Apollo astronaut that flew to the moon without landing.