Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston's John Duncan, a coffee dealer whom he had met in the commodities trade, to sell out his personal holdings and invest $112,000 in G. & W. Next he induced David Judelson, a New Jersey machine-tool maker whom he had met on a vacation at Lake Champlain, N.Y., to put up another $50,000. Today Duncan, at 37, is G. & W.'s president and day-to-day administrator; Judelson, 36, is executive-committee chairman and production chief. Bluhdorn is the creator of new mergers and markets...
Goof on the Ground. In other technical areas, Gemini had at least one negative aspect. Instead of touching down last week within sight of the carrier Lake Champlain as planned, the astronauts fell short by 103 miles. Investigators at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human error on the ground, not in space. One of the controllers at Houston had fed incorrect information to the big computer system on the ground, which in turn relayed the wrong re-entry calculations to the shoe-box-sized computer aboard Gemini 5. Said Howard W. Tindall Jr., mission-planning...
Minutes after they reached the deck of the Lake Champlain, Astronauts Cooper and Conrad were seen, bearded and smiling, on TV screens across the nation. The images were not live TV pickups, which were not feasible due to technical difficulties. But they were the next best thing: still pictures transmitted almost instantly...
...astronauts themselves withstood the strains of flight and re-entry splendidly. Though they had been cramped into a half-sitting, half-lying position for eight days, they managed to do a couple of deep knee bends in the pickup helicopter, hopped nimbly onto the deck of the Lake Champlain and walked without wobbling. NASA doctors aboard the aircraft carrier probed the astronauts' ears, looked down their throats, poked their chests, listened to their hearts, took their pulse, sampled their blood and made scores of other medical measurements. The first medical findings: the astronauts were in "wonderful shape...
...cameramen on the Lake Champlain used Polaroid cameras to snap the pictures that were scanned by Videx. Each picture was scanned for 40 seconds; each frame consisted of 400 vertical lines, compared with the 525 horizontal lines of ordinary TV images. The pictures were transmitted by radio from the ship to Long Island, thence by telephone lines to Houston, where the TV networks were waiting with their receiving equipment. The beeping heard by the TV audience was the sound of the Videx signals...