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...instruments as could be squeezed in. Tests were run on every part, arguments raged. Pickering presided calmly and quietly over the melee. He commuted back and forth to NASA's Washington headquarters on the night plane, the "Red Eye," carrying reassurance in both directions. Says Dr. Wernher von Braun of Pickering's administrative style: "His most outstanding characteristic is his ability to lead that most difficult breed of men. the scientists. They can be exceptionally pigheaded. You have to give them enough rope to argue their views. If Bill tried to run a very tight show...
...home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought we were in a race. My God, we've got guys going out of their minds down here trying to get things going." » At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Saturn Boss Wernher von Braun warned: "We cannot allow things to slow down any more than they have...
...Cape Canaveral Kennedy saw the towering, 2,800-ton service structure that will eventually house the Saturn III, the most powerful space vehicle yet off U.S. drawing boards. At the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala.. Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused...
...began when Kennedy asked Von Braun and his fellow NASA scientists about the relative merits of the moon plans. The NASA program calls for a shot into moon orbit, followed by brief exploration of the moon's surface by means of a two-man "bug," after which the explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner...
...Bread Alone. Yet Swift is not willing to live by bread alone (not even Tip-Top, Braun, Stroehmann or Taystee -all Swift clients). Above all, he considers himself an actor, and he has forsaken thousands in commercials to appear for $45 a week in off-Broadway's adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He does three roles, and since he is ordinary looking, few in the audience are aware that the same actor is Father Dolan, an old Franciscan monk, and the president of the university. Offstage, when Swift is not changing his makeup...