Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun hurried back to the dinner table, broke the news of Sputnik I, turned earnestly to Neil McElroy. "Sir," he said, "when you get back to Washington you'll find that all hell has broken loose. I wish you would keep one thought in mind through all the noise and confusion: we can fire a satellite into orbit 60 days from the moment you give us the green light." Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, who had accompanied McElroy, raised a hand of objection: "Not 60 days." Von Braun was insistent: "Sixty days." General Medaris settled it: "Ninety days." Neil McElroy...
...help me, it may take me three years." Yet the work has to be held together, and that is Von Braun's job. It is a job to which he brings a spectrum of knowledge that spans many specialties. Explains Test Lab Chief Karl Heimburg: "I might find it hard to comprehend what Walter Haeusserman [head of the guidance and control lab] is saying. His field is strange to me. Yet Professor von Braun can restate it and make me see clear as day. This is a genius quality...
Cheatham and his friends canvassed U.S. and European schools to find a new job for Kubali. They may well be too late. At week's end the Turkish Parliament had before it a new law giving the government the right to prohibit Turkish professors from teaching in any foreign universities without the Education Minister's express permission...
...sure that its author will not be thus dematerialized again, Morrow has posted a $100,000 reward to anyone proving that Gardner's output is not all his own. Said Morrow's President Thayer Hobson: "It would be worth $100,000 and a lot more just to find someone who can write like Gardner...
...close to 300,000 copies, 12,000 of them in the U.S. From all over the world fan mail poured in to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty Mrs. John Rouse, wife of a London businessman, lives with the Kuans, serves...