Word: alan
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...most of those who worked with Von Braun felt that he was a genius. Alan Lovelace, acting director of NASA, described the handsome German as "a 20th century Columbus who pushed back the new frontiers of outer space with efforts that enabled his adopted country to achieve pre-eminence in space exploration." Colleague Ernst Stuhlinger considered him an excellent engineer with an almost uncanny ability to visualize both a problem and its solutions, and a brilliant leader who could transmit his enthusiasm to others. Stuhlinger's admiration is understandable. When someone asked Von Braun what it would take...
...master-hand of the Bard. It is he who wakens the star-vexed lovers and sets them in pursuit of those who will scornfully spurn them. It is he who inspires the Queen of the Fairies, Titania (Maggie Smith), to dote in adoration on Bottom (Alan Scarfe) after the head of an ass has been grafted...
Screenplay by JAMES LEE BARRETT, CHARLES SHYER and ALAN MANDEL...
...idea comes from M.I.T. Astrophysicist Alan Barrett, who decided that the same electronic wizardry that was enabling him to tune in to microwaves from free-floating molecules in interstellar space could have a down-to-earth application. If they were reduced in size, he reasoned, the sensitive antennas could even pick up the weak microwave (or heat) emissions from a tumor...
Marriage Revealed. Alan Jay Lerner, 58, Broadway lyricist laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); and Nina Bushkin, 27, daughter of Joey Bushkin, the jazz pianist; he for the sixth time, she for the first; on May 30 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...