Meas samon biography of williams
NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
Edited Oral History Transcript
William A. Anders
Interviewed by Paul Rollins
Houston, Texas &#; 8 October
[This transcript has been edited and approved by William Anders.]
Rollins: Well, when did you make the decision to become an astronaut and what did you do towards &#;
Anders: [Early in my Air Force career as a fighter pilot] I was trying very hard to get into the Air Force Flight Test School. &#; I &#; talked to Chuck Yeager and the people running [the school] and Yeager &#; said &#;We&#;re really looking for people with advanced degrees.&#; This was in []. So, I signed up for the Air Force Institute of Technology masters [degree] program [where I] graduated with honors. [I went back] to Edwards thinking I was a shoe-in and [was told by Yeager], &#;Oh, well [that] the criteria [had been changed and that advanced degrees didn&#;t count as much as flying time.] &#; I was disappointed but I still kept trying to get in and [applied] for the Flight Test Program [anyway]. [In the meantime,] &#; I was driving my Volkswagen bus, [one Friday afternoon] going home from work [in] Albuquerque [New Mexico] at the Air Force Special Weapons Center, where I was an engineer and an instructor pilot [when] I heard this announcement [over the car radio] that NASA was looking for another group of astronauts. Now one had to be a test pilot for the first two groups [of astronauts] and it didn&#;t occur to me that they would change that. But [for] this group [the radio announcer] went down the list of things [NASA required. He said the applicants] had to be a graduate of Test Pilot School or have an advanced degree. I remember pulling over to the side, tuning it up, and then waiting for the next fifteen minute [news cast where the &#;&#; or advanced degree&#; message was repeated. By the time I got home] &#; I had decided that &#; I was going to put in an application. &#; I wrote up a letter [that weekend], &#; mailed it 1In the American Grain is a problematic text: written by a doctor and poet, discussing nine centuries of American history, it does not easily lend itself to categorization, seeming to float in between literature and history, offering a meditation on an object which is as elusive as the book's title. The title symbolizes the book’s difficult ambition: to capture a moving object, to try and pin down what is by essence impossible to pin down—the ethos of a country that is also a continent, something with more than one national identity, which must therefore exist in the book as a geographical more than a national project. As such, the book encapsulates the question of the national versus the geographic, and challenges the separation of history and literature, bringing these categories together in a unified discourse on “America,” understood both as an idea and as reality. 2The quest for a definition of “the American grain” spans 21 chapters, each presenting, presumably, key moments in American history going up to these moments range from traditional historical markers such as Columbus’ discoveries, the Mayflower, Cotton Mather, Washington or Lincoln to more surprising sections such as the ones on Eric the Red or Cortez and Montezuma. The former were familiar figures to the readers who had encountered them in Francis Parkman, who is quoted three times in the book (83, 91, 91), George Bancroft, or William Hickling Prescott among others, while the latter and less expected ones reflect Williams’ ambition to go beyond a traditional narrative of the development of the 13 British colonies into the United States and of American exceptionalism.i 3Kenneth Burke, a friend and correspondent of Williams’, reviewed the book for the New York Herald in and might have sealed its fate and its marginal position within the field of American studies. Burke celebrated the vitality of Williams’ prose American baseball player (–) For other people named Ted Williams, see Ted Williams (disambiguation). Baseball player Williams with the Boston Red Sox in As manager Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, – July 5, ) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from to ; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "the Thumper", Williams is widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history in addition to being the last player to hit over in a season. Williams was a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time recipient of the AL Most Valuable Player Award, a six-time AL batting champion, and a two-time Triple Crown winner. He finished his playing career with a batting average, home runs, and a on-base plus slugging percentage, the third highest of all time. His career batting average is the highest of any MLB player whose career was played primarily This article is about the music genre. For the bootleg compilation album, see Cambodian Rocks. See also: Music of Cambodia Cambodian rock of the s and s was a thriving and prolific music scene based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which musicians created a unique sound by combining traditional Cambodian music forms with rock and pop influences from records imported into the country from Latin America, Europe, and the United States. U.S. armed forces radio that had been broadcast to troops stationed nearby during the Vietnam War was also a primary influence. This music scene was abruptly crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists in , and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed during the ensuing Cambodian genocide. Due to its unique sounds and the tragic fate of many of its performers, the Cambodian rock scene has attracted the interest of music historians and record collectors, and the genre gained new popularity upon the international release of numerous compilation albums starting in the late s. Cambodia gained independence from France in , under the leadership of young king Norodom Sihanouk. Sihanouk was a musician and songwriter, and fostered the development of homegrown popular music in the newly independent country. Under Sihanouk's rule, it was common for government ministries to have their own orchestras or singing groups to perform at official state functions and royal receptions. For example, Sihanouk's mother, Queen Sisowath Kossamak, sponsored the Vong Phleng Preah Reach Troap (the classical ensemble of the Royal Treasury), and in approximately invited the young Sinn Sisamouth to join the ensemble as his first professional music job. Cambodia's international relations with France and various countries in Latin America fostered the importation of pop records into the country, while children from wealthy Cambodian families oft
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