The Faget case

The Faget appointment was preposterous on several grounds.

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.

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.

Responsibility for the Faget appointment rests with Gen. J. M. Swing, an Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service.

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.

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.

While working for NACA at Langley, Faget worked on the design of the X-15 hypersonic spacecraft.

In 1958, Faget became one of the 35 engineers who formed the Space Task Group, creating the Mercury spacecraft.

Faget also worked on the Gemini and Apollo vehicles, which shared many design points with the Mercury.

Faget filed a patent for a space shuttle vehicle design in 1972.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Then it was that District Attorney Welch entered the case.