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...Some of the other most recognizable scientists: Jonas Salk, Wernher von Braun, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Rene Dubos, Glenn Seaborg, Carl Sagan...
Sometimes Amitai Etzioni seems to be a one-man profession. A professor of sociology at Columbia University and director of New York City's Center for Policy Research, Etzioni, 46, has written two books on foreign affairs, debated Wernher von Braun on the space race, helped Betty Friedan start a "think tank" for women, testified as an expert on an abortion bill, and received a National Book Award nomination for a book on genetics. Two weeks ago, he was hailed by a New York Daily News headline writer as a "sexpert" for a talk on sexual ethics...
...eyes of his peers, Johnson is to aviation what Wernher von Braun was to rocketry. From the time he took his first flight in a barnstorming Lincoln biplane from a pasture near his boyhood home of Ishpeming, Mich.-the pilot told him to learn to build planes, not fly them-Johnson has lived aviation. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, he landed a job with Lockheed in the Depression year of 1933, largely on the basis of an impressive wind-tunnel analysis he had made of a model of a forthcoming Lockheed plane; the young graduate recommended...
...Statendam would steam from New York to Florida for the Apollo 17 launching, then sail through the Caribbean while a band of intellectuals discussed what it all meant. Some never showed up: specifically Arthur C. Clarke, co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rocket Titan Wernher von Braun. But Novelist Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools) was on hand to describe the launching as "rather glorious." So was Norman Mailer, who argued that the space shots should have included experiments in magic and telepathy. The problem: only about 40 people bought the premium tickets; the remainder were various "guests...
Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...