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Harvard's baseball team has been working out for a little more than two weeks now, and while some parts of the puzzle are beginning to fit, Shepard won't start making binding decisions until he sees the team perform outside...
Coach Norm Shepard, looking very much like a major league manager, leaned back in his chair, glanced at his roster, and shook his head. "We have some boys who can field, we've got a few hitters, and the pitching might not be too bad," he observed, but there still are plenty of imponderables...
...will visit the College frequently this spring to make preliminary plans and hold discussions with students on both buildings, which will replace the College's off-campus houses located along Garden St., between Shepard and Linnaean...
Minimum Risk. Each of the seven astronauts was given a special responsibility in Project Mercury. Shepard studied the technique of getting the astronaut out of the capsule after landing in the sea. Grissom was in charge of the capsule control system. Glenn specialized in the capsule's cockpit layout, contributed substantially to its design. Among other things, he suggested an auxiliary power system that was adopted by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., designer and builder of the spacecraft. Glenn's own Friendship 7 (which he named himself after consulting his family) was tailor-made to his specifications. He color-coded his instrument...
Telling Everything. At Cape Canaveral, a few newsmen criticize Powers for putting words in the astronauts' mouths ("A-O.K.," an expression attributed to Astronaut Shepard, is actually Powers' inspiration), and for basking in the reflection of their glory (he always talks in terms of "we," leading newsmen to call him "the eighth astronaut"). Describing what Glenn had for breakfast before last week's launch and whom he had it with. Powers let it be known that he was there, too. "I got there a little late," he confided to newsmen...