Word: astronaut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of them barely out of high school by their appearance, though the organization's upper age limit is 40. A lanky boy with a goatee jutting from his chin and a cowlick on the back of his head walked among the chatting delegates, hawking snap-shots of an astronaut standing on the moon next to a perfectly erect American flag. "They're copies made from a slide I got from an outfit in Houston," he explained. "Seventy-five cents...
...head of the Plans Branch for a large staff supporting Projects Gemini and Apollo, I coordinated the development of plans for astronaut recovery. Although recovering astronauts is not your responsibility, I believe the planning, innovating and problem solving necessary for its successful execution is also required in your business...
Purcell did not graduate from Harvard (he's an alumnus of Purdue as is astronaut John Glenn, but Glenn's chances of becoming president of Harvard vanished when he fell in the bathtub during the Ohio Senatorial primary and broke his coccyx, making it virtually impossible for him to lead the commencement procession around the Yard without limping). Purcell did get his Ph.D. here. Scientists have fared well in the Harvard presidency. Pusey's predecessor, chemist James B. Conant, served for 20 years before retiring to become high commissioner of occupied Germany...
...first astronaut on Mars took that one giant step and then brained his partner with a big red rock, what court could try him? Who could prosecute the hijacker of a spaceship bound for Alpha Centauri? Under current laws of jurisdiction, earthbound courts might be forced to ignore such crimes of the future. Still, new ground is being broken. The case most often cited by jurists trying the first extraterrestrial crime may well be a murder that occurred this summer on a remote Arctic ice island now floating 310 miles from the North Pole...
...made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora and fauna, and the geography of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. He was 80 before he finally retired, and even then he lost none of his zest for adventure into the unknown. Three years ago, Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. asked the admiral whether he might be available for a moon trip: "Damn right," replied MacMillan...