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...come after him with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired Ara to patrol the grounds. The checks came directly from the Board of Education. He was real proud of that...
...headlines, and for the moment at least, most of the argument about whether the moon program is worth its cost was forgotten while the nation joined in the cheering. "This is a great day for science and a great day for the U.S.," exulted University of Arizona Professor Gerard Kuiper, head of a team of scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, which prepared the shot. From all over the world flowed praise. "A stupendous achievement," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society. Even Moscow joined the chorus...
Zoom. First to get a look at the pictures was a committee of scientists headed by Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Arizona, a man who has spent much of his life peering at the moon through the world's best telescopes. "What has been achieved today is truly remarkable," he announced. "We have made progress in resolution not by a factor of 10, or 100, which would have been already remarkable, but by a factor of 1,000. The moon, which a good telescope can bring to a distance of 500 miles, has been brought...
Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's late chief, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger, prefers the nickname Minnie. Her fiancé, Winston Spencer Churchill, 23, on the other hand, strenuously resists Winnie, and as anyone who has tangled with his grandfather can testify, Churchills are stubborn. Randolph's Oxford-educated son has other family traits: 1) a fondness for travel and journalism that last year sent him on a four-month tour of 40 African and Middle Eastern countries, will result in a book, First Journey, due in the U.S. in January, 2) freckles...
...United States should not meddle in the population problems of other nations, Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American, said last night...