Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S cover story this week is another fast switch and another example of Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin's quick brushwork. Shepard's weightless passage through the wild blue yonder, is, of course, strictly symbolic...
...rockets had taken off many times before; they too had been photographed and filmed. But no one, from the President on down, could forget for an instant that at the tip of this particular Redstone, nicknamed Freedom 7, was a capsule carrying a 160-lb. man named Alan B. Shepard Jr., a Navy commander, a citizen of Derry, N.H., and the first American to attempt to pierce outer space (see SCIENCE cover...
...With Shepard rode the hopes of the U.S. and the whole free world in a period of darkness. In recent weeks the U.S. had suffered a succession of setbacks: first, the orbital exploit claimed by the Soviet Union for its Major "Gaga"' Gagarin, then the Cuba debacle, and then retreat in strategic Southeast Asia. For Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier image badly tarnished by cold war defeats, Freedom 7 represented a daring and dangerous gamble. He had given the go-ahead for the man-shoot not to be made in such secrecy as to cast doubt on the actual...
...starter against Brandeis will probably be Dick Garibaldi, a sophomore right hander who opened the season as the team's top pitcher. Garibaldi has not been able to find the plate too consistently, but Shepard is hoping the warm weather will help his control...
...season has been a puzzling one for coach Norm Shepard. At the beginning of the year the Crimson seemed to be strong in pitchers, but not much better in hitting than last year's team, which posted an anemic .206 team batting average...