Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, the Vice President, and America's First Lady were at the gravesides, and millions watched on television as the Apollo astronauts were laid to rest last week: Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee at Arlington, and Edward White at West Point. Of all those who paid tribute to the three who died earthbound on a launch pad at Cape Kennedy, no one put the meaning of their deaths into clearer perspective than the Rev. Conrad Winborn, pastor of Ed White's home church in Seabrook, Texas. "Let us not expect to sing the victor's song," said...
Sudden Jump. At week's end National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deputy Administrator Robert D. Seamans Jr. told reporters that a second-by-second analysis of tape recordings made during the test indicated that at 6:31:03 p.m. Roger Chaffee first shouted a warning about the fire, that there were faint signs of movement, and that at 6:31:09 Ed White, too, reported the cockpit blaze. Other NASA control center instruments recorded the fact that the cabin pressure (held at a level of 16 lbs. per sq. in.) began to increase, and that three seconds after White...
...centers tend to develop a cooler and more mature attitude toward boys. Says one girl in Washington's Webster School: "I'll ask my boy friend what his plans are for the baby and me, and if he doesn't have any, it's goodbye, Roger." Whether or not a girl does marry the child's father-and relatively few do-she seems to emerge with a sounder sense of values, a conviction that the shame of unwed pregnancy is not the end of life. As one girl told center officials in Detroit: "My mistake...
...Ticket. While depositors now in swaps will continue to enjoy their benefits, no newcomers can be admitted after April 30. The newly forming funds, as a result, are being swamped. "We're doing a really big business now," says Roger S. McCollester, national manager of mutual-fund sales for Dean Witter & Co., "because investors feel this is the last train out of the station...
...problems of decision making in international conflicts, led by Roger D. Fisher '42, professor...