Word: manly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the NASA base at Wallops Island, Va., a Little Joe rocket (a cluster of eight solid-fuel rockets) took off with a full-scale astronaut capsule perched on nose. No man was inside it, only a rhesus monkey named Sam and a collection of meal worms, bacteria, molds and other biological samples. Strapped to a kind of cocoon lined with plastic foam sat Sam the monkey, riding in astronaut's "chair." Sam and cocoon were enclosed in an inner, air-conditioned " logical package," thick with straps, wi and instruments to test Sam's reactions...
...Monkey Sam was not momentous; it was merely one of the minor but essential steps that must be taken before a rocket climbs into space carrying an astronaut (scheduled for late 1961).But it proved that if anything goes wrong on the early upward leg of such a flight, man can bail out and live...
Teacher Jaeger got the idea after wearying of his family's thriving Jaeger Machine Co. (pumps, hoists, compressors) in Columbus, Ohio. A slight, intense young man, Jaeger had dabbled in engineering at Cornell, majored in education at Ohio State. Though his father gave him his own factory, Jaeger dreamed of Pied Pipering a study-as-you-go school around the world. Two years of teaching high school math in Columbus (while sitting on Jaeger Machine's board of directors) convinced him. Last year Jaeger earned a teacher's degree (Ed. M.) at Harvard, went to work setting...
...call it spiritual therapy," says the Institute of Religion's director, Methodist Minister Dawson Bryan. "You can separate hydrogen from water, but then you haven't got water any more. For years doctors have been treating man's mental and physical ailments, but have been ignoring the spiritual part of him. You can't separate these entirely without destroying the whole person...
...completion next fall, is expected to increase enrollment. Part of the structure will be a large out-patient clinic to which ambulatory patients can come for counseling. Among the institute's case histories that underline the need for such counseling is the story of a middle-aged man, now making a good recovery from major surgery, who was sinking fast until a chaplain-intern persuaded him that he still had much to live for. "Every person's life is vitally affected by his faith and religion," says Dr. Bryan. "The institute trains the health team to understand...