Word: moffett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physicists are busy with their investigations, other scientists will be on an even more exciting quest. Biochemists will be examining the specimens for evidence of amino acids and protein molecules?the building blocks of life. Paleontologists will seek fossil remnants of organisms. At NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., still other investigators will try to coax life itself from the lunar rocks, using nutrients in the hope of resuming a life process that might have been interrupted millions of years...
...used in delicate eye operations. He wondered if the same process might not be used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling a bullet fragment through gelatin of approximately the brain's consistency. Researchers decided that the idea was worth...
Subtle Suggestion. The Commandos are strictly forbidden to engage in any combat operations, and so far none has been killed. But there have been some unnerving moments, When he first went to live in a village, Technical Sergeant Kermit H. Moffett, 30, was greeted by the sight of a schoolteacher hanging dead in a tree, a victim of Communist terrorism. But Moffett stayed on, providing medical help and living just as the Thais did. Communist propaganda teams twice came to the village to hold meetings, but both times they left Moffett alone. He had become too popular with the villagers...
...whatever whimsical criticisms, unweighted by mental effort, get voiced to me. This is not to say that I think Johnson has usually been right; only that he stands fair to be martyred by a generation of critics who have not tried or troubled to understand his horrible position. JUDITH MOFFETT Fulbright Lektor in American Studies The University at Lund Sweden...
...EMILY MOFFETT HODGES...