Word: astronaut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television, that relentless blazer of old trails, opened some fresh territory for a change last week. On NBC, retired Astronaut John Glenn, 46, premiered his Great Explorations series with "The Trail of Stanley and Livingstone." And on ABC, The Undersea World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau cycle was launched with "Sharks...
...conductor's profession today bears as little resemblance to what it was 50 years ago as does the life of an astronaut to a World War I pilot's. Even within the present generation, the changes in the music world would dumfound a Toscanini. Orchestras have grown up, spawned offshoots and multiplied; there are 1,400 in the U.S. today, from small-town groups of amateur noodlers to massive metropolitan institutions. Festivals have flowered in tropical profusion. Recordings and TV have created vast new outlets. The jet airplane has catapulted careers into global orbit. Musicians who used...
Died. Air Force Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., 31, the first and only Negro named to the LI.S. astronaut team, chosen in June for the manned orbiting laboratory program; on a routine proficiency flight, when his F-104 jet went out of control and slammed into the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., thus making him the ninth fatality among those assigned to the manned spaceflight effort since it began...
...part of his digestive tract. If he chews a few antacid tablets, he most likely will do himself no good, but neither will he do any harm. To guard against recurrences, he should avoid eating pulse vegetables such as navy or lima beans (as every high-altitude flyer and astronaut knows) and roughage foods such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and celery. These two classes of foods, by different biochemical mechanisms, promote the formation of gas in the digestive tract...
...subsequent success of Surveyors 3, 5 and 6 enabled scientists to complete their planned surveys of possible astronaut landing sites and left Surveyor 7-scheduled to be launched early in 1968-for use in a completely scientific mission. Scientists are currently considering landing it in a highland basin, where it could photograph and analyze high-altitude features not yet investigated by U.S. or Russian landers...