Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former TIME Managing Editor; after a long illness; in Phillipsburg, N.J. A cousin of TIME Co-Founder Briton Hadden, Martin became Managing Editor when Hadden died suddenly in 1929. A demanding stylist who held that TIME should be written from the point of view of "the man in the moon at the end of the current century," Martin in his long career also worked on LIFE and FORTUNE, wrote books and the narration for the film The Fighting Lady...
...America, might one day see the dream come true--but for now they play to what the Pope calls a private audience, with not enough fans in the two-bit stadium seats to fill a quorum at a PTA meeting. Others, like the 18 members of former Dodger Wally Moon's superb Arkansas small college team, have the talent but little opportunity; while there are those with even less chance. The eager, almost fanatical youngsters of Puerto Rico, where youth baseball has been uncorrupted by the small-time ambitions of fat Little League coaches, all hope to follow their idol...
Born in Germany, where his father was a baron, Von Braun showed a precocious interest in rocketry; at the age of twelve he managed to construct a rocket-powered wagon, and by the time he was 21 he had outlined the design for a moon rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun...
...guided missile development at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala. In 1960, Von Braun, who had since become an American citizen, was named director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville and charged with building the rockets that would eventually carry U.S. astronauts to the moon...
...excellent engineer with an almost uncanny ability to visualize both a problem and its solutions, and a brilliant leader who could transmit his enthusiasm to others. Stuhlinger's admiration is understandable. When someone asked Von Braun what it would take to build a rocket to reach the moon, Von Braun replied simply: "The will...