Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SP/4) WILLIAM WHITMEYER U.S.A. A.P.O., San Francisco...
...questions are of little concern. Blaiberg drives his car, drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
Meanwhile, Hayes is lecturing his current crop of quality kids on the dangers of getting the big head. " 'Blame is safer than praise,' " he says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, along with General William Westmoreland and Richard Nixon, is one of his favorite philosophers. He continues with Emerson: " 'As soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one who lies unprotected before his enemies...
...matter what the Russians do, the U.S. astronauts should be on their way moonward on or soon after Dec. 21. Colonel Frank Borman and Major William Anders, both Air Force officers, and Navy Captain James Lovell are already at Cape Kennedy, spending 16 hours a day in preparing for every detail of a complex mission that has been planned and plotted to the last second. They spend 20 hours a week in simulators, training their minds and hands to react almost automatically to every conceivable contingency...
...mission to the moon, Apollo 8 will carry a three-man crew that is unusually well qualified, both by experience and temperament, for the pioneering flight: they are Veterans Frank Borman and James Lovell, both 40, and Rookie William Anders...