Word: braun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course will feature lectures by leading physicists Robert Jastrow and Werner von Braun, which will be supplemented by field trips to space flight installations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly...
...same is true in the field of missiles. A quick check of the Huntsville, Ala. phone book indicates the startling proportion of Germans currently in our employ. The first U.S. satellite, Explorer I, was primarily the work of Werner von Braun. He and his colleagues were originally given something to work with, when the government confiscated 98 German freightcars from the Harz mountains, filled with V-2 parts. We really had no other choice; we didn't know how to build large rockets ourselves then...
...traffic jams to supermarkets. "Europe has become more and more Americanized," he says, "so Europeans are greatly interested in how the U.S. copes with such things." Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy...
...winning the award, Whipple joins such previous recipients as Wernher Von Braun (1957), Hermann Oberth (1955), and James A. Van Allen...