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The Faget appointment was preposterous on several grounds.
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Responsibility for the Faget appointment rests with Gen. J. M. Swing, an Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service.
Faget and was
The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat.
The spacecraft was designed by Max Faget and NASA's Space Task Group.
Maxime A. Faget ( pronounced FAYHgit ) ( August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004 ), better known as Max Faget, was the designer of the Mercury capsule, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle.
Faget was the son of Guy Henry Faget, and grandson of Jean Charles Faget.
Faget based his designs on the aerodynamic work of Harvey Allen from the mid-1950s, and was instrumental in selecting the blunt-body shape that won the Mercury competition over numerous contenders.
Faget also led the development of the escape tower system used on Mercury, which was used in various forms on almost all following manned spacecraft.
After his retirement, Faget was among the founders of Space Industries Inc., established in 1982.
Faget was inducted into the National Space Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.
Max Faget was a co-inventor on five United States patents issued to Space Industries, Inc. between 1988 and 1992.
Faget and preposterous
The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.
Faget and on
In January 1958, Max Faget and Paul Purser had worked out in considerable detail on paper how to cluster four of the solid-fuel Sergeant rockets, in standard use at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, to boost a manned nose cone above the stratosphere.
While working for NACA at Langley, Faget worked on the design of the X-15 hypersonic spacecraft.
Faget also worked on the Gemini and Apollo vehicles, which shared many design points with the Mercury.
Faget died of bladder cancer on October 9, 2004, aged 83.
Early space capsules were based on the designs of the late Maxime Faget and many Soviet engineers working under Sergei Korolev.
Faget and .
However, his superiors, including Mercury capsule designer Max Faget, felt differently.
" Yet he agreed to follow the plan advocated by Faget and by Walt Williams, his superior in the flight operations division.
* Maxime A. Faget
Born in Stann Creek, British Honduras, Faget attended City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, California, and he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1943.
In 1958, Faget became one of the 35 engineers who formed the Space Task Group, creating the Mercury spacecraft.
Faget filed a patent for a space shuttle vehicle design in 1972.
appointment and was
The appointment was made in a move to expand the engineering services offered to the designers of electronic systems through assistance in electro-magnetic compatability problems.
The secretary's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful.
The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.
I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.
From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.
In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.
It was however in Britain that Antoninus decided to follow a new, more aggressive path, with the appointment of a new governor in 139, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.
In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.
Yet another chronicler, John of Worcester, mentions nothing of any trouble in Rome, and when discussing the appointment of Wulfstan, says that Wulfstan was elected freely and unanimously by the clergy and people.
Although Ealdred gave up the bishopric, the appointment of Wulfstan was one that allowed Ealdred to continue his considerable influence on the see of Worcester.
At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.
Immediately prior to his appointment to Canterbury he was the Bishop of Monmouth in Wales.
With his father's death in 1892, and his appointment as head of the Bahá ’ í faith, there was much opposition against him, including virtually all his family members.
However, Burn was unsuccessful in depriving Smith of the appointment.
Doke supported the appointment of Benedict Wallet Vilakazi as member of the staff, as he believed a native speaker was essential for acquiring a language.
By this time Yan was well known for his adaptability, and Chiang welcomed his appointment.
Calixtus ' reference to the feudal homage due the emperor on appointment is guarded: " shall do unto thee for these what he rightfully should " was the wording of the privilegium granted by Calixtus.
But the underlying current was that Henry had overreached, and his appointment of the antipope was beyond the pale.
The oath, approving the appointment of Umar, was taken only by the Companions present in Medina at the time.
The appointment of Rykov as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars was a de facto demotion of Kamenev.
Malenkov was assured an identical policy in government institutions ; the most notable change being the appointment of Mikhail Pervukhin, Ivan Tevosian and Maksim Saburov to the Deputy Chairmanship of the Council of Ministers.
It was not until the appointment of Ruud Gullit as player-manager in 1996 that their fortunes changed.
It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.
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