Word: confirmant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still pictures shot through a Gemini window with a hand-held Hasselblad 70-mm. camera showed the rendezvous with the target satellite that Stafford had dubbed the "angry alligator." There was such clarity of detail that NASA experts used the pictures to confirm the reason why the ATDA had failed to shed its heat shroud. The ATDA ground crew had not connected four lanyards that would have assured proper jettisoning. Certain that the lanyards were merely leads for ground-test instruments, the crew had taped them uselessly to the side of the shroud...
...spokesman for the University would confirm the Marcos "feeler". Traditionally. Harvard does not reveal degree recipients or the principal speaker until the day of commencement...
...history's most misquoted statements, Charles E. Wilson, ex-chairman of the General Motors Corp., told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1953, during hearings to confirm his appointment as Secretary of Defense: "For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." The truth of that celebrated remark has never been more apparent than today. For five straight years, the U.S. economy has enjoyed unprecedented good times, and no company has benefited more from the prosperity or contributed more to it than General Motors. Now that the sales...
...missing bomb had not broken apart on hitting land, or it had fallen into the sea. Further ballistics analysis and wind data enabled the Sandia computers eventually to plot the probable trajectory of the missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended to confirm the story of Spanish Fisherman Francisco Simo y Orts, who had reported to skeptical task-force officials that a "stout man" swinging from a parachute had hit the water only about 75 yds. from his boat, five miles off Palomares...
...fellowship winners have been nominated by the Committee on Selections. This appointments will become official when the President and the Fellows of the Corporation confirm the awards May 16th