Word: technician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the first box was opened by a technician working with surgical care as his gloved hands reached into a sealed vacuum chamber, where the lunar package had been placed. While four NASA geologists looked on, he slowly drew off any gases that might have been given off by the rocks, opened the box, then removed a piece of foil that had been used to trap solar particles and two lunar core samples. Finally, he opened the plastic bag containing the rocks themselves. The scientific observers said that the 15 or so rocks -the largest...
After the astronauts are taken by helicopter to the recovery carrier, they will be hustled without ceremony into a biologically sealed van that vaguely resembles a house trailer without wheels. There they will join a flight surgeon and a technician, who will share the remainder of their quarantine time with them. During the next 67 hours, the sealed van with its five occupants will travel aboard the carrier to Ford Island, Hawaii, where it will be unloaded, flown in a C-141 to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, and transported by truck to the Manned Spacecraft Center...
...sure, many of the symptoms of unhappiness in Brevard County can be found in any U.S. executive suburb. Countless families also manage to cope successfully with the rootless life of the space technician, just as thousands managed to surmount the pressures and temptations of boom towns in World War II. Yet the turmoil in some Brevard County homes is so corrosive that Dr. Ben Storey, a general practitioner in Titusville, reports that he finds one new case of ulcers every week in adolescents that he sees. He has even discovered one case in a 2½-year-old child. Considering...
...diagrams) charts every step of a coup, from plot to power. The average coup-once physically launched-takes about 13 hours. The whole art is to analyze all forces that might squelch the coup and, if possible, "neutralize" them beforehand. To block airborne troops, for example, a single bribed technician can silence a key radio-station or airport control tower. Capital cities can be isolated and made safe for coups by parking trucks across the airstrips that link them to the outside...
...place in operatic history, Viennese Music Historian Marcel Prawy said last week: "Where is there a house in which the orchestra plays from scores that carry the personal annotations of Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan? Where is there a house where each stagehand and stage technician has undergone an apprenticeship under masters whose teachers themselves form an uninterrupted chain through four generations? And where else is there a house where ushers greet each lady or gentleman by saying 'Küss" die Hand [I kiss your hand]' with a deference that dates straight back...