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Dour Rejection. Sure that he had the answer, Houbolt attended meetings of NASA's moonshot planning group to promote the lunar-orbit-rendezvous (LOR) scheme. His reception was cool. "Your figures lie," shouted one excitable member of the group. "I don't believe a word of it." Wernher von Braun, present at the same meeting, dourly shook his head at Houbolt's proposal and said, "No, that's no good." Recalls Christopher Kraft, director of NASA's manned-flight operations: "When some people first heard of Houbolt's idea, they thought he was nuts...
...clean fun. He was, as Schickel generously illustrates, a masterful organizer, bold technological innovator and a zealous, often ruthless go-getter in the idealized American tradition. He had a compulsion to order, cleanse and control in ever-expanding circles. Disneyland, once described as "the world's biggest toy lor the world's biggest boy," consumed most of his interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters, he was a perfectionist; he had the huge shade tree at the Tahitian Terrace pruned to better his view, and then had new branches stuck...
...will not mature. When insects at later stages are treated with growth hor mone, they are killed by developing at too rapid a rate. Moreover, Williams .and other researchers have discovered that lethal equivalents of these sub stances have been manufactured naturally as a protectant by trees and plants lor millions of years...
Having succeeded in his goal, Chancel lor announced last week that he would return to NBC news. "I've decided I'm a writer and reporter, and that's what I want...
Even though tobacco men predict that the 100s will continue to account lor a growing share of market, one problem must be solved that not even Wells, Rich, Greene cares to make light of. Without a converter that costs $50, the longer size does not fit into 900 000 vending machines, from which 17% of all cigarettes are sold. Vending-machine owners so far are not eager to spend on conversions until they are certain the 100s are not a fast-burning...