Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when NASA doctors grounded Astronaut Donald Slayton because of a heart flutter, Cooper threatened to quit the program. After the fifth U.S. man-in-space flight, a superb six-orbit job by Wally Schirra, there were reports that last week's flight would be flown by Alan Shepard. Schirra, a close friend of Cooper's, put an end to that: he threatened to raise a public ruckus if Cooper were bypassed...
Joseph Blatchford, international director of ACCION, will speak tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House...
...trying to find solutions to our many problems. We're on a three-shift basis now, and with the coming good weather, we hope to add another shift, if we can stretch the days and nights." Two U.S. astronauts were busy with space: Commander Alan Shepard Jr. was readying as back-up man for this week's scheduled flight by Astronaut Gordon Cooper, and Lieut. Colonel John Glenn was taking up a station in the Pacific to help monitor the flight. Jacques Cousteau was working underwater in the Red Sea and felt that he could not surface long...
...column was based on a misunderstanding over an incident in the game with Brandeis University. I personally talked to the columnist following the publication of this statement and found him most willing not only to accept my explanation of the situation but also to admit that, in fact, Coach Shepard is a man of "major-league" calibre. In quoting Mr. Frazier without explanation or amplification, Mr. Ruge has brought before the Harvard audience an incident which should have been ignored and forgotten. Conceived in error, it should have died in obsurity. Apparently Mr. Ruge was anxious to have a "catchy...
...RUGE replies: I did not state that Coach Shepard is "strictly bush"; I merely wrote that in the Holy Cross game, the baseball team was strictly bush. Mr. Cutler's quarrel is with Mr. Frazler, and he should write to him at the Boston HERALD...