Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
Finley makes a point of learning the name of each incoming sophomore. Every year he writes some 150 letters of recommendation for seniors applying to foundations and graduate schools. The elegantly phrased epistles (one senior was termed "a veritable Apollo") are enthusiastic and effective...
...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...child is aware of the highly volatile nature of a pressurized, 100% oxygen environment. I find it inconceivable that a fire-extinguishing and emergency-hatch system capable of being instantaneously triggered at any stage of the countdown was not ordered into the design of the Apollo capsule. It is true that "accidents will happen," particularly in research programs such as this-but they are excusable only if due to causes unknown or unforeseeable. This wasteful tragedy is made even more poignant by the fact that its prevention was well within our present technological capability...
...cities by saying: "I would not want the U.S. to be described by future generations as a society that stood amidst the filth, the oppression and the violence of its slums and shot rockets to the moon." Even Vice President Humphrey, himself a strong promoter of the Apollo program, has worried lest "we go down in history as a people who could send a man to the moon and five Coke vending machines along with him, but could not put man on his feet right here on earth...