Wednesday, 02 May, 1962
Left for Princeton about 1:00 PM from Dr. Wood’s office.
Had Ford front end looked at; I need new ball joints, tie rod ends, and idler arm. Rotated tires.
Saw Dr. Wood, who could find no external evidence of tooth soreness. Had lunch with him and left for Princeton, arriving at 5:45 PM in a driving rain. Howard showed some slides on his new Kodak projector before going to a concert. It was quite pleasant.
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Tuesday, 01 May, 1962
Concluded an acceptable draft, for Miller to work on, about 4:30 PM.
Dan Leivich wanted to know if I would return to Alaska at ALCOM. It was hard to say no!
Overcast
Talked to Glen Kirkland for 65 minutes re: 1) the audio system at 4th Presbyterian Church, and 2) the impact on the church of Dr. Mier’s death. Made arrangements to meet Glen again next week.
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Monday, 30 April, 1962
Checked in at AFCOA at 11:10 AM after a 7:30 AM start. I was too tired to start at 6.
The document we were asked to comment on was a statement of the radar range equations for various cases, including self & mutual screening for jamming. It isn’t quite clear just how we are to treat this document.
Stayed at Holiday Inn at Shirley Hiway & s. Glebe Road.
Overcast
Left a call for 0530, but was too tired so slept until 0730. Got to the Pentagon at 11:00 AM.
Stayed at Holiday Motel at Shirley Highway & S. Glebe Road.
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bed, the yurt
what more to ask — to spend several nights in The Yurt I helped to put up a couple years ago… Collin and Marisa have got it set up very comfy, (the stove will easily dispel a -20˚F night!). and the guest book is the floor (Sharpies available for all comers). sun salutations on the deck overlooking the canyon are exquisite!
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Sunday, 29 April, 1962
Left for DCA at 4 PM. Stopped at a motel adjacent to Exit 7 on the NJTP at 11:30 PM after driving thru /in a driving rainstorm all the way.
Overcast
Took family to church & SS. Many missionaries were there, and a fine service was held.
Stopped at Bea Yuknis’ on the way home to get Al’s Simpson meter for the church and a summer coat of his.
Left for DCA at 4 PM.
Stopped at a motel adjacent to the NJTP Exit 7 at 11:45 PM. It rained most of the way, so hard in places that traffic slowed.
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Saturday, 28 April, 1962
Stopped by the Lab to see how my run came out; it had numbers I’ve never seen before. After some study I found that card 1 was left out of the data deck. Fixed this and left it again for another run, which in this case will be Monday AM.
Clear
Went in to church to work on and talk about the audio system. It is being readied for the Conference, with special set-ups for projectors and outside speakers. I found at least 2 bad cables. DCH was along.
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Friday, 27 April, 1962
Picked up the output of the deck I put in yesterday. It was no different than yesterday. About 1:30 PM I concluded that the Mach Number / Cd + Cl Table input was not in the proper sequence in that it should be monotonically increasing. I relocated the groups of 7 blank cards so that they came ahead of the unity entries for Cd for Stages 5, 6, and 7. This ran ok, but the missile never started down! Casacelli found that TP had no decimal point, so it was not applied! Fixed this and left it for the 5 PM run.
Took LCH & DCH in to the first mtg. of the Missionary Conference. It was well-attended and quite good.
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Thursday, 26 April, 1962
Put the finished Deck into the 7090, but it stopped taking data after card 72; this was the 1st card of the NTI set. Left it for a rerun after Donna Sample was unable to find anything wrong.
Called Gen. McCormack’s office re: HJM, but didn’t get a response later for an appointment.
Rec’d approval to attend the ORSA mtg in DC May 9-11. Put thru trip requests for this and the one next week to DCA.
Clear
Phoned AMS to see if I can get the steering gear fixed tomorrow but they are booked up.
Picked up drive shaft and put it in the Willys.
DCH made his last regular visit to Dr. Yen; he is now on his own; i.e., if he wants his teeth straight he will have to keep the brace in his mouth.
Tuned some of the bass notes. Sally O. came over to give JAH a piano lesson; NJH also took a 15 minute lesson. The treble keys are out of tune.
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cold camping shower
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back in the wilderness, watching the sky
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Wednesday, 25 April, 1962
Started to make up a deck of cards so that I can get an entire trajectory from the program I’m using.
Clear – windy
Left the drive shaft at AMS. It was not worn out, it was out of adjustment, so I’ll have to look elsewhere for the vibration. I’ll get it tomorrow.
Went to BS meeting. Got Sgt. Held to give the boys some marching instruction.
Mr. Charbineaux had a problem in that the Explorers were requested by Hirsh to lead the parade at the Davis Home on 19 April & Art Hirsh then brushed them aside at starting time. A. Miller will talk to A. Hirsh to see what he says.
Went in to town on 2 PM shuttle. Paid $1000 on mortgage at Cambridge Savings Bank and took hat to Adams Hat Company for reworking.
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sacrifice: gloves
They may look fine on the backs, but the palms are trashed and shredded, they’ve been used for a decade of fire-tending at chill campsites around the west, after a useful career in colder places. Not even sure where I got them, but I suspect in Iceland in the early 1990s. They’ve had a good life.
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self-portrait, Upper Sand Canyon
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Tuesday, 24 April, 1962
Talked with Dan D. re: HJM at FAA BRD. He agreed, said he would talk to Dr. Overhage, L2 Director, and I will talk to HJM. I did this at 1:45 PM, and he agreed, as he wants to leave the area. Reported this to Dan who said the following: Mr. Halaby had spoken at length with his scientific advisory committee on this need for a BRD head. Halaby wants an individual from industry who is an R&D leader. He certainly won’t get this at the current Federal salaries. Halaby regards this job as the key to the future.
Call from a Col. Duncan on Hanscomb re: going to Washington next week to review a problem that has to do with the air defense of Europe. It turned out that Larry Starkey requested me as a member of a 3-day evaluation committee. I’ll drive down Sunday afternoon.
Clear.
Windy
Took the drive shaft out of the Willys; will leave it at AMS in morning.
Picked up our 5 sacks of Turf Builder at Dr. Wishner’s; it was $3.35/sack, so I got back $.75. Our lawns — the grass from the original plantings — are almost non-existent.
Mr. Gravelin was supposed to appear at 0730 to talk about a ditch for drain tile at the front of the house.
I’ll have to get the 2nd Willys towed to AMS, as they do not have a set of repair plates.
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portrait, Heidi and James
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Monday, 23 April, 1962
Decks I, II, & III produced Runs 15, 16, & 17 but Deck IV was short card 2, so it produced no data. Reran this one at 1200.
Discussed Saturday’s idea (4.21) with VAN, who thot that Dan Dustin might be able to help.
Put card 22 (Item 29-42) the nozzle area equal to zero so that the thrust will be zero at time 31.9999 secs. Previous changes have made it zero during the application of the 4th stage thrust. These will be Runs 19 thru 22.
Clear, windy
Tried tuning the piano by counting beats. Certain notes are hard, D42 for example. Perhaps I need to mute all the strings rather that the middle section. A37 & F45 sound dead, although the 2 new A37′s sound fine.
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garden (stock of lexicons)
The garden of Eden:
already functions as an *after-* life:
the bibles cannot tell:
of *the numberless time:*
before the wall:
the building of the wall:
*the moment* of their confinement.
****/A*
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Sunday, 22 April, 1962
Sticky – clear
Took family to church – 9 AM. The Sanctuary was filled at both services. This should help materially with the deficit.
We then went to Al & Edith’s for a delicious dinner. May & John seem quite well.
Mary expects to get her new VW on 25 April. She is quite excited as it is her first new car.
We went to the Easter concert at the Church at 6:30 PM; it was fine, but too short.
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sacrifice: empty pen
Staedtler pigment liner 0.3, Art. Nr. 308 03-9, EAN 40 07817 330418
I had the ‘ex’ send me four of these from Iceland a couple years back, but am on the last one now, they don’t do to well in hot & dry situations. But otherwise, they are an excellent and clean substitute for my exploding Koh-i-noor India Ink drafting pens which were just too sensitive to changing air pressure (i.e., flying), and had to be totally disassembled and cleaned prior to any travel. The beauty of the line, and the feel of the metal tip on paper was superlative, but the hassle was too much for the traveler to bear.
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watching the sky
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Saturday, 21 April, 1962
It occurred to me while laying fiber pipe to take water from our SW down spout that Hugh Miser might take on the job of FAA R&D Bureau Chief. I thot of writing to the FAA Administrator & to the President’s Science Adviser Dr. Weisner, but of course, I have no rank. It then occurred to me to seek the assistance of Alex Nedzel, and thru him, Bob Weisner. I’ll work on this on Monday AM.
Clear – 70˚!
Finished the ditch about 1 PM. Now we won’t have drain water over the SW yard.
Put the concrete mixer together; it works quite well.
Asked Mr. Gravelin to look at the drain problem in the front yard and quote on a ditch.
Too tired to sleep.
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self-portrait, near Upper Pool Creek
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Friday, 20 April, 1962
Ran at 0930:
Deck 1 β = 8.0 ∼ 400, T = 700
Deck 2 β = 20 ∼ 1000, T = 5500
Also, had the cards from the Output Tape sorted on Col 72 so that they can be put through the plotter. Made an error in the above runs; also Bino tells me that the thrust eq. for St. 4 should have the nozzle area taken out. Changed the data cards to provide 4 runs two with 5500 at β = 400 + 1000. Left cards at Stop 2 for 0815 Monday morning.
Overcast in AM
Drove the Willys.
Went into Boston in the afternoon, picking up the mixer, a length of pipe (fiber), some bread and a few other articles.
Stopped at the office until 7:30 PM.
Worked a little on the ditch for draining the downspout at the SW corner of house.
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Thursday, 19 April, 1962
See yesterday – Came in at 3 PM to look at the results for runs 9 & 10 — see previous page.
Overcast – clear in early morning, Rain in PM
DCH & I went on the annual march to Concord; there must have been 700. After ceremonies at the Bridge we then marched in the parade along Monument Street to the parking lot.
Went to the Lab in the PM.
DCH to Boston.
Ordered a concrete mixer, mylar (10′x50′x0.006″ sheet), and some other articles.
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watching the sky
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Wednesday, 18 April, 1962
The 4 runs showed a slowdown to 506 Ft/sec at 38 K! This is too slow.
Reran at 20˚ & 25˚ with δ+ = 1.0 sec rather than 0.1 sec and 250 sec total time.
Put a data deck in the 5 PM run with 20˚, 01. sec, β = 400 and δ = 20˚, 0.1 sec, β = 400 and thrust to 5500 from 700; V at 300 K, 36,281; high.
Drove the Willys.
Went in to Tuner’s Supply for some more tools & a pound of Nr. 18-1/2 wire.
Passed a boy (Roger?) on most of his First Class tests except the signalling. We meet at 0545 tomorrow at the Capt. Isaac home to start the march to Concord to commemorate the Battle of Concord April 19, 1775.
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Day 3 – a short circuit
wanted to check if a round-about way to get to the top of the bench was possible via heading to Mitten Park, and ascending the end of the bench there. nope, not without some serious bouldering or even technical climbing. got up pretty far, but the as the rocks are severely distressed at the fault itself, everything gets unstable. I quit where the trees stopped growing! good day for just looking around at everything along with a little initial off-road cardio. the cryptobiotic soil is always something to visually decode along with the lichen and other symbiotic expressions.
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Tuesday, 17 April, 1962
Picked up the new cards and made up 4 data decks hoping to see what the RE angles will be for 5˚, 10˚, 15˚ and 20˚ of thrust direction — δ in Kressa’s program. Left the program & 4 data decks at the L-208 Express pickup point for 10:45 AM pickup. They were run but I should not have put a data card ahead of each deck. I left them for a 5 PM rerun.
Overcast
Rode with HS in his new Plymouth SW. It is an 8 cylinder 6 passenger with auto transmission of a gray color like his old Dodge. It rides very nicely; and does not jerk when the push-buttons are operated.
Sent a check for $96.31 to the Electrical and Hardware Center, 1119 Main Street, Springfield 3, for an AM/FM intercomm with a stainless steel face.
Did as much as I could with the StroboConn, to about C76. Tried the chord method, and found it quite good!
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Echo Park campfire
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Day 2 – a short circuit
a short circuit to recall the textures and to reacquaint the senses with the essences of place — sky, rock, earth, plants, former occupants, etc: the basics. starting with a quick overview of Echo Park from the southern wall (a of the first two images), following that complexly eroding wall along to Pool Creek, then across to some nice petroglyphs.
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self-portrait, arrival
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Monday, 16 April, 1962
Wrote note to Steve Dodd in Div 2 office to authorize payroll deductions of $458.34 over the next five months. This as a result of Liberty Mutual payments in February and March. I hope this finishes this transaction. My jaw is still tight on the left side, making those teeth intersect first.
Took Kent Kressa’s program and changed it to show higher RE angles; also higher β and lower thrust. Nick Ciampa took me thru the card room where I left an order for enough new data cards to make the above changes.
WZL gave Bino and I the data on the 4th Stage from Ashmore, who phoned it at 0830 PST.
Clear
A quarter of an inch of wet snow blanketed everything last night.
Drove to work in the Willys.
Worked on piano in PM. It is quite difficult to rotate the tuning pins in the treble section with the short-handled hammer; I’ll order the extension hammer tomorrow.
All the children home from school, and under foot.
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driving the Echo Park road
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194081
Gateway Service, 124 West Brontosaurus Avenue
8.439 gallons
$4.159/gallon
$35.10
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193968
Shell, 101 Railroad Avenue
6.644 gallons
$4.199/gallon
$27.90
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193790
King Soopers #645, 12350 West 64th Avenue
6.989 gallons
$3.999/gallon
$27.95
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Sunday, 15 April, 1962
Overcast
Snow in PM!
Took family to SS & church. During the service the Sanctuary public address system picked up a police or aircraft radio transmission. It looks like what we should do is to pull in all new cables asap.
Tuned a few more piano notes; the tuning pins are loose. I broke one string that made up 2 of A-440. Found the StroboConn off — 3 cents low — in comparing it with WWV’s A-440 cps transmission.
LCH & I took DCH in so he could operate the main amplifier in the PM. Mrs. Ockenga & LCH — with HJO — are coming to dinner on 16 May.
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Saturday, 14 April, 1962
Took Willys down to AMS where I checked the compression and timing. Compression ok in all 6 at about 90 psi. The timing was way off.
Tuned all the piano notes except the upper 28 and the lower 8.
The chap who does black-topping came around and he will widen the drive by 2′ and dig out under the porch, starting in about 1-1/2-2 weeks.
Had breakfast at Harry’s; he insisted when I went after the tires. Put his on the RF of Willys and my good 5th one as the Willys spare. Put the 2 off the Willys on the 3rd SW.
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