Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After putting grasshopper-light radio equipment on high-flying cosmic-ray sounding balloons, making rockets tell about their troubles was simple. Says Caltech Aerodynamics Professor Homer Joe Stuart, a JPL pioneer: "It is interesting to think what the Germans could have done with a Pickering. We learned after the war that they conducted 1,700 test flights with V-2 rockets. That number is unbelievable until you remember that they had no telemetry worth the name. Their severe security kept their best electronics people from coordinating with their rocket program...
...Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God, presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, and now "prophet of the world to come," returned yesterday to Harvard, where he had crowned himself kind...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year attracted 4,291,200 visitors and topped even 1961, the memorable "year of the Rembrandt." when more than 1,000,000 saw the museum's bought-at-auction $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Chicago's Art Institute showed a nice rise to 884,500. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts got a 20% increase in attendance...
...public debate as in private trading. He once made a Senate speech claiming that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator Homer Capehart rose to protest. The next day Kerr answered Capehart with a deft revision of the Congressional Record: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
Vienna to Paris. By the time he was 30, he was all but running a small state. Long before his death in 1832, at the age of 83, he had become a one-man European cultural institution. Today Johann Wolfgang Goethe still is ranked with Homer, Dante and Shakespeare as one of the four great writers of all time. But in Britain and the U.S. he is also one of the most widely unread. The difficulty lies not only in Goethe himself, but in his translators; awed by the intricacy of Goethe's thought, and incapable of reproducing...