Word: spaceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four Russian spacemen, like most U.S. spacemen, are believed to be deep in military missile work. Sedov, a versatile scientist with important accomplishments in both mathematics and physics, has been head of the Soviet Academy's astronautics committee since 1955, is generally considered the No. 1 Russian spaceman. Blagonravov, 65, once an artillery officer in the Czar's army, is an expert on all sorts of weapons, from machine guns to rockets. He served in 1945-46 as Deputy Minister of Higher Education, is believed largely responsible for Soviet emphasis on scientific training...
...When Major General John Medaris, head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala., last week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement...
Alberto Giacometti, 57, is a hungry sort of spaceman who eats away the forms he makes, leaving space supreme. "I see reality life size," he once remarked, "just as you do." But his portraits got smaller and smaller. He would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris cafes, and crush them with a squeeze. After World War II, Giacometti suddenly began producing tall, straw-thin stick men reminiscent of ancient Sardinian bronzes. His sculptures can be seen almost all the way around and dominate space instead of filling it. These new figures were universally acclaimed, but Giacometti...
Wernher von Braun, spaceman, director of the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal................................................................................................. LL.D...
Clark University Wernher von Braun, spaceman Sc.D. Citation: "Truly a modern Columbus. Space is his realm, the freeing of man from the chains of gravity which bind him to this planet...