Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target vehicle. He straddled his ship to steady himself. "Ride'm, cowboy!" called Command Pilot Pete Conrad exuberantly. "How are you doing?" "I'm tired, Pete," the dejected Gordon admitted...
...diameter, 100-ft., Dacron rope, slipped it over the end of Gemini's l-ft.-long docking bar and clamped it tight. As he crawled back toward his hatch, exhausted by that seemingly simple task, perspiration temporarily blinded his right eye. With that, Conrad ordered him back into Gemini's cabin, wiping out planned exercises with a hand-held jet maneuvering gun and a power tool for tightening bolts...
Tasteless Tipoff. Dysautonomia was not recognized as a separate disease entity until 1949, when Dr. Conrad M. Riley described several New York City victims and it was hard to distinguish from other inherited defects. Then, at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Dancis and Dr. Alfred Smith found that dysautonomia had one unique feature: its victims lacked taste buds in the front and, in most cases, in the back of the tongue as well. This defect in taste buds signals defects in other parts of the nervous system...
Even more ambitious flight plans are now being polished for Commander Charles Conrad (command pilot) and Lieut. Commander Richard Gordon (pilot), who are scheduled to launch in Gemini 11 shortly after Labor Day. To be attempted...
...Conrad Susa's incidental music is mostly just a series of sound effects. When Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus, Tharon Musser's eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that...