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...JOHN FRY III...
Minus Mathematics. William Stuart Symington III (he trimmed the name to W. Stuart Symington as a businessman, dropped the W. when he got into politics) was an "extravagantly beautiful" child, recalls his doting sister Louise. Absorbing the household's bookish atmosphere-adorning the mantle was a Latin motto that translates as "Life without literature is death"-little Stu read so avidly that the family called him "the professor." As his Christmas present when he was ten, he asked for and got a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Noel, Harlan M. '62 19 6:1 230 South Bend, Ind. 72 Sheridan, C. Michael '62 20 6:1 195 Framingham, Mass. 71 *Nelson, K. Eric '61 20 6:2 210 Washington, D.C. 70 *Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 20 6:0 210 Norwood, Mass. GUARDS 69 Waterman, George H., III '60 21 5:8 190 E. Greenwich, R.I. 68 *Weidler, Jerry L. '60 21 6:3 220 Sumner, Iowa 66 Wilson, Roger K. '61 20 6:1 210 Sioux Falls, S.D. 64 Baker, Richard H. '62 19 6:1 200 Cambridge, Mass. 65 Gaston, Thomas...
...Okla. 69 Loftus, Gary M. '61 19 5:9 179 E. Cleveland, Ohio 60 Norton, Gerald P. '61 19 5:11 180 Baldwin, N.Y. 67 Shaughnessy, Stanley '60 21 6:0 188 N. Tarrytown, N.Y. 61 Tobriner, Matthew W. '61 19 6:0 195 Washington, D.C. 62 Weihenmayer, E.A. III '62 19 6:0 188 Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron, Ohio 52 Sullivan, Jeremiah...
...moon rockets in the mid-1960s. Von Braun proposed Saturn, with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik I revealed the U.S.S.R.'s enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director Roy Johnson of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (who is resigning soon) got it going again. Then Dr. Herbert York, the Defense Department...