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...will be taken over by Dr. George E. Mueller, 45, vice president for research and development of Los Angeles' Space Technology Laboratories, one of the U.S.'s biggest space-age contractors. Holmes's successor, says a NASA official, is "very quiet, very polite and no table thumper like Holmes." Both an electrical engineer and a physicist by training, Mueller (pronounced Miller) has done notable and imaginative work in electromagnetic theory, missile guidance systems, deep space communications, microwave research, space-systems engineering and space payload design. He helped develop the U.S.'s first ICBM and the instrumentation...
Bombarding the U.S. with fallout is just as much an act of aggression as if the Russians dropped the bomb itself on us. Just how much more of the "shoe thumper's insanity are we going to take...
...destined to be wiped from the face of the earth, let's make sure we take the shoe thumper and the Soviet Union with...
...standing crowd of 10,000 cheered for five minutes after the blast. They chanted, "We want Ted," but the Thumper stayed in the dugout, pacing nervously...
...just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped too. By now, the record has sold more...