Word: couchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject long scorned or ignored. Civil defense agencies were swamped with requests for pamphlets and questions about survival. Thousands of U.S. citizens have actually begun digging in. But the nation remains far from the day considered inevitable by one of the most experienced of its civil defense officials : Virgil Couch, 54, industrial specialist of the Office of Civil Defense in Battle Creek, Mich. Says Couch: "Civil defense must be part of the normal way of life. Like smallpox vaccination, we've got to get used to it and build it into the normal fabric of our lives...
Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...
...approached. The crowds of official and unofficial spectators grew tense with excitement, even though most of them had already witnessed Shepard's successful flight last May; they knew that the odds against success increased with each try. Least excited was Grissom. Strapped to his contour couch, he talked by telephone with his wife in Newport News, Va. He told her that he felt fine...
Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...
...planets. When the first parachute opened, he got an 11-G shock, but did not mind it much. Through the periscope he watched the second parachute open; then, without haste, he made ready for landing. He disconnected his oxygen hose, loosened belts that held his body to the contour couch. The landing in the Atlantic was soft. For a few mo ments the capsule lay on its side with one porthole under water. Slowly it righted itself, and Commander Shepard opened the door to greet the rescue helicopter...