Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interesting tale when considered in the context of NASA's shaky relations with the scientific community. Scientists have complained for years that the manned space program was dominated by engineers. To mollify its scientific critics, the agency set up the scientist-astronaut corps two years ago to train young scientists for field work on the moon and for the earth-orbit missions of the Apollo Applications Program. Not one scientist-astronaut has been assigned to the prime or back-up crews of the next 3 Apollo missions, while several test pilot astronauts, among them aging Alan Shepard, have been slated...
...have been there about 90 seconds when a guy sits down opposite me. I look up. He's a young guy, maybe a sophomore. I turn back to the magazine. The guy introduces himself. I'm not even looking at him, I'm reading about Jerry Kramer, but he introduced himself anyway. I look up. He's probably a sophomore and doesn't have any friends in the House. I think to myself. He's probably a nice guy. I tell him my name...
Donovan is a difficult person to describe. He is young and likes to kid around. yet has a deep sense of responsibility belying his boyish look. He plays about in an old black cowboy hat, but when dinner is set he sees to it that everyone has enough to eat. He loves music and his house revolves around song; the people whistle snatches of tunes as they moved about. But words, too, are handled lovingly: when I was there Donovan took much delight in hearing others use a Scottish accent...
Thursday, William Young, a consultant to the Friendly Committee, emphasized the Overseers intention to open the new committee so that everyone could "lay their cards out on the table...
...Freshman seminar office, a wispish young secretary explained the paranoia. all the while toying with the keys that hung inserted in the lock of her desk...