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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronomer; of a gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...
Though in some places the crowds did not live up to expectations, the Pope was engulfed by a roar of emotion everywhere he went. For Paul, the acclaim was a tonic. After months of agonizing over his encyclical on birth control, then weeks of widespread and often bitter criticism, here was simple, uncomplicated, old-fashioned affection. The papal presence transformed Colombia's somber capital, insulated 8,355 ft. high on a plateau between two Andean ranges, into a scene of sheer, uninhibited joy. Shoulder to shoulder, an estimated 500,000 bogotanos lined the eight-mile route to town, straining...
...rather that you support undertakings in education, that you seek to organize yourselves under the Christian banner and to modernize your agriculture." On the final day of his visit, Paul inaugurated the annual meeting of Latin American Catholic bishops by defending his encyclical prohibiting Catholics from practicing artificial birth control...
...lasting contributions to Columbia. After taking over from Dwight Eisenhower, he created six institutes in which scholars from many fields studied selected regions of the world, built up a science faculty that won four Nobel Prizes, set top scholars to work on studies of vital contemporary problems ranging from birth control to computer science to urban planning. A more effective fund raiser than administrator, he attracted enough money to complete $70 million worth of new buildings and push the annual operating budget from $22 million to $136 million. He had almost reached the halfway point in the university...
...build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine for those days, the 425-h.p. Wasp was an immediate success and helped finance the founding of United. United at one time or another pulled under its wing Bill Boeing, Chance Vought and Igor Sikorsky, also gave birth to the now independent United Air Lines. Horner grew along with the company, masterminding Pratt & Whitney's World War II production of half the power (600 million h.p.) used in U.S. war planes. He became president of the entire company in 1943, after the war brought United into...