Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed last spring the identities of the seven Project Mercury astronauts (TIME, April 20), newspaper chains, magazines and radio-TV networks bombarded NASA with bids for exclusive rights to the great adventure story. Firmly NASA turned down all comers: the U.S. taxpayer, who was financing the man-into-space project, was entitled to the full official story-free. But in disclaiming its own right to merchandise the personal accounts of the seven chosen astronauts, NASA passed that right to the spacemen themselves...
Last week through their Washington attorney, Leo DeOrsey (who charged no fee), the astronauts announced their Boswell: LIFE. For some $500,000 to be split seven equal ways, LIFE bought the exclusive right to all seven personal diaries of the astronauts' experiences leading up to and including the first trips into space. The men early decided on the seven-way split (actually 14, since the astronauts' wives are contract signatories) on the common-sense ground that though only one man could be first up, the other six will probably follow...
...from a bank to open an astronauts account with the theme: "They might take a risk in space but when it comes to what they do with their money on good old earth . . ." DeOrsey coldly turned the offer down. LIFE has assigned three staffers to stay with the seven astronauts during most of their rigorous conditioning period, has a first article in the works...
...containers-at selected points in both the Pacific and the Atlantic. The oceans are used only for low-energy leftovers-radioactive rubber gloves, mops, rags, discarded lab equipment-but over the years an impressive amount of stuff has been dumped. MSTS joins the Coast Guard, other Navy units and seven private firms in the atomic garbage business; the others have already dumped some 30,000 steel and concrete packages into the Atlantic, and 24,000 into the Pacific...
...month when he was called up from Phoenix that he stayed up all night to make sure he made his plane, never did get around to packing all his clothes. But at the plate for San Francisco, Willie is as cool as his bat is hot: in his first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place. To get Willie's smooth, uncoiling swing into the lineup. Manager Bill Rigney willingly put him on first base in place of another...