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...listing my speed as 65, when both he and I knew I was going somewhat faster ... I will be unable to appear as my ship has . . . sailed away with me upon it. I ... fly a jet fighter airplane based on an aircraft carrier ... I plead guilty [but] I would caution you to submit any financial claims rapidly because jet flying . . . has turned out to be somewhat hazardous. The odds are roughly three to one that if I don't receive your assessment within the next six weeks you will receive an 'addressee deceased' letter in return. This...
Approach with Caution. Astronauts who plot long journeys in space assume that such dull, preliminary steps have already been taken. Later steps are more fun. To reach the moon from an artificial orbit is elementary stuff; voyages to a planet take more figuring. One plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
Such larger bodies as Mars and Venus, both powerful gravitational whirlpools, should be approached with caution. But Mars and Venus both have atmospheres, which the space men plan to use as frictional buffers. Their ships would circle in the atmospheric fringes until they were moving slowly enough to land. An alternate plan: cruise warily around the planet and send small space-dinghies down to explore its surface...
Personality: Tall, solemn, methodical, pedagogic, Dulles has a lawyer's passion for detail, a lawyer's caution. He and his wife Janet have three children: John, a mining engineer; Lillias, now Mrs. Robert Hinshaw; Avery, who entered the Roman Catholic Church after service in the Navy in World War II and later became a Jesuit. For relaxation, Dulles has long favored sailing and fishing in Lake Ontario, where he has his own island...
After coaching three bleak seasons of Harvard basketball, Norman Shepard is understandably cautious in talking about his team's prospects for this year. And although the varsity turned in some excellent shooting against weak Rhode Island University Saturday in the Blockhouse, caution must indeed be used in judging its chances...