Word: wapakoneta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in Wapakoneta, Ohio (pop. 7,500), the son of a career civil servant who is now assistant director of the state's Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction. As a youth, Neil limited his social life mainly to school and church functions; when he went out with a girl it was usually on a double date to the ice-cream parlor. He played baritone horn in the school band. He studied hard, and while his teachers do not remember Armstrong as a particularly brilliant student, he impressed them all with the thorough, meticulous way he went about his work...
Before the big home-town parade through the crowded streets of Wapakoneta, Ohio, somebody asked the local hero, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 35, just how nervous he really was when Gemini 8 began its wild yawing and rolling last month during the Agena rendezvous. Replied Armstrong, with rueful pertinence: "It wasn't any worse than some of the scares I've had driving an automobile...