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...that is officially named the Lunar Module (LM) but is becoming known as "the Spider." Scheduled to be tested in manned flight for the first time next week during the flight of Apollo 9, the Spider is the homely offspring of a concept of Aeronautical Engineer John Houbolt, an unsung hero of the U.S. space program. NASA officials now agree that without Houbolt's lonely campaign early in the 1960s, the U.S. would have been hard pressed to meet John Kennedy's goal of landing men on the moon before...
...lets go back about 10 years to the South Side of Chicago and some of the original stuff played by the men who made the Blues revival possible. The list of unsung heroes of the Blues is endless; but I have chosen to emphasize 3 of my favorites--keyboard man Otis Spann, Harp man Sonny Boy Williamson, and slide guitar man Elmore Jones...
...other governmental departments. She must be one of the foremost authorities on military academies (over 60 are advertised in her magazine), and she would have been an astute adviser on cinema to the National Council of Arts. (Few people know about it, but Miss Rogers has had quite an unsung acting career, culminating with her starring role in Bringing Home the Bacon, an experimental film financed by the Oscar Mayer hot-dog people...
Joseph C. McKinney was the recipient of the William Paine LaCroix Award, which is given to the "unsung hero." McKinney has been a back-up punter and a member of the kick-off team. It was McKinney who threw the block that enabled Bill Kelly to recover the on-sides kick in the Yale game. "Joe has been extremely reliable and dependable, and a real asset," Yovicsin said...
Sophomores Tom Spengler, consistently cast in the unsung hero role, and Jon Enscoe round out the Harvard lineup...