Word: eyesight
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...close to extreme panic," he says. "I thought, I'm going to drown. And I'm drowning for a movie? I'm a f______ idiot." Filming in the cockpit simulator in Australia (where the movie was shot), he suffered three concussions and, after a deceleration injury, lost his eyesight for four hours. The producer's sister, a professor of neurology at the University of Sydney, checked him out and, to make sure he wasn't talked into more extreme work, refused to leave the set for the next two weeks. "I honestly don't know how to do it differently...
Later in 1949 he was assigned to Truman's White House detail. He relished Truman's early-morning walks, but he worried about the President's crawling around the girders during the reconstruction of the White House. Recalls Scouten: "His eyesight wasn't very good." Scouten soon found himself on Wake Island in the Secret Service advance team for the Korean War meeting between Truman and his independent-minded general, Douglas MacArthur. He was in the White House's West Wing when the flash came about the assassination attempt against Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists at Blair House across...
...television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better eye; able to hear a whispered voice from 3 ft. away (hearing aids are permissible); and a blood pressure reading of less than 160 over 100. "There ought to be a great advantage to prove that any old fart...
...They didn’t really want pilots and my eyesight wasn’t that good,” he explains...
...vapid expression on their face. Attributing this to mere near-sightedness—convinced they once wore glasses in that Core class you shared—you trace their gaze. With a half-raised “hey,” you realize it’s not poor eyesight; instead, you’re struck that they look you right in the eyes, yet make a conscious decision to exit the comforting realm of acquaintanceship. Looking quite awkward with your mid-flight hand wave, you quickly regroup, and pass this now former friend (exiting acquaintanceship means entering the abyss...