Word: apollos
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...other anachronisms are regretfully recorded. The Department of Classics countenanced the erection of hermae in the palace portico, these being busts from the Praxitelean Hermes and the Apollo Belvedere, a trifling discrepancy of centuries from the Homeric period. The other was the costume of Cassandra's charioteer, Mr. John Weare, class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet...
...outer-space communications, which is receiving one-third of the $40 million that Ford is currently pumping into Philco. Western Development is now expanding its laboratories, is planning to help build a middle-altitude communications satellite, and will have the job of operating the Houston tracking station for the Apollo moon shot...
...similar National Aeronautics and Space Administration project, the Apollo missile systems center, was established in Houston last year after a strong bid by Massachusetts failed. However, in his press conference yesterday Governor Endicott Peabody '42 declared. "There is no evidence or even suggestion that we might lose this space center...
...slender metal planks of different sizes, to be hung from the ceiling by steel wires of extra strength. He had no final image in mind as he worked, but in the end he produced two giant floating sculptures that suggested "two friendly gods." He named his work Orpheus and Apollo...
Memory's Tricks. The contenders in one case were the B. F. Goodrich Co.. developer, with the Navy, of the Mercury astronauts' suits, and International Latex Corp.. which recently underbid Goodrich on a NASA contract for Apollo moon-exploration space suits. In an Akron court, Goodrich asked that its former manager of space-suit engineering, Donald H. Wohlgemuth, be enjoined from taking a similar job at International Latex. Wohlgemuth, 36, had worked six years for Goodrich, rising after 15 pay increases to a salary of $10,600. Shortly after International Latex won its NASA contract...