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Monster Rocket. Wernher von Braun, director of the NASA facilities at Huntsville, Ala., favored an earth-orbital-rendezvous technique; two or more rockets would be used separately to launch a spacecraft and fuel-carrying stages into earth orbit, where they would be assembled for a flight to the moon. Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is most concerned with unmanned space shots, proposed that extra fuel and supplies be rocketed to the surface of the moon and then be brought together into a supply depot by a remotecontrolled tractor. The astronauts would land near...
...Princeton, designed mines for the Navy and conducted upper-atmosphere research at Johns Hopkins. He has been a scientific liaison officer in the U.S. embassy in London, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland and a researcher in planetary atmospheres at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. He served as director of the National Weather Satellite Center of the U.S. Weather Bureau, and before taking his present post in 1967 was dean...
...only after a thoroughly unproductive year at Santa Monica City College that he decided to jettison ambitions to become a doctor and impulsively enrolled in an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After a sketch in which he played an old man, his instructor took him aside and said, "Dusty, it may take you a long time?ten or 15 years?but you are going to have a life in the theater." Recalls Hoffman, ruefully: "He was sure right about how long it would take...
Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...
ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:45 p.m. to conclusion). Ohio State v. U.S.C., from Pasadena...