Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject long scorned or ignored. Civil defense agencies were swamped with requests for pamphlets and questions about survival. Thousands of U.S. citizens have actually begun digging in. But the nation remains far from the day considered inevitable by one of the most experienced of its civil defense officials : Virgil Couch, 54, industrial specialist of the Office of Civil Defense in Battle Creek, Mich. Says Couch: "Civil defense must be part of the normal way of life. Like smallpox vaccination, we've got to get used to it and build it into the normal fabric of our lives...
...greatest triumph last week, when with infinite precision, the robot-manned Mercury capsule MA4 was boosted into orbit, permitted to circle the earth, then brought down and recovered in good condition. Despite all the excitement stirred up by the short, sub-orbital flights of Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, last week's achievement was far more significant...
...last Brattle Street Forum of the season will focus on the topic "Ethics and Work." Participating will be Virgil C. Aldrich, professor of Philosophy at Kenyon College; Dan C. Lortie, lecturer on Education and research associate in the Center for Field Studies at Harvard; Jessie R. Pitts, assistant professor of Sociology at Wayne State University; Mark G. Field, lecturer on Social Relations and research associate in the Russian Research Center at the University; and Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...known and unknown perils of space stayed their hand last week as the U.S. shot a second man into space with almost clockwork success. What made the second flight less successful than the first -and nearly cost Astronaut Virgil ("Gus") Grissom his life-was the same primitive danger that threatened the skin-covered boats of neolithic man: the hostile and brooding...
...Your Virgil Partch cartoon amused me greatly, because it is not so far from the truth. I watched my mother hook up her electric blanket to the overhead light in one of the permanent tents at Yosemite National Park last summer with great howls of derision, and found at 3 a.m. that the extra warmth was quite welcome...