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John Watts Young

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

John Watts Young 1930-, American astronaut, b. San Francisco. Young served as pilot of Gemini 3 (Mar. 23, 1965), command pilot of Gemini 10 (July 18-21, 1966), command-module pilot of the Apollo 10 lunar-orbit mission (May 18-26, 1969), and commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission (Apr. 16-27, 1972), during which he became the ninth person to walk on the moon. When he commanded the first orbital test flight of the space shuttle Columbia (Apr. 12-14, 1981), he set a record for the greatest number of orbital spaceflights (five) by an individual. He then went on to b... Read more

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
...his Three Steps to Victory (1957) and The Pulse of Radar: The Autobiography of Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1959). A biography is John Rowland, The Radar Man: The Story of Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1963). Briefer accounts appear in Egon Larsen, Men Who Changed the... Read more

Boulting, Roy and John
...McGill University, Toronto. Career: John entered film industry as office boy...and editor, mid-1930s; introduced by John, Roy began as assistant director; they founded Charter Films, 1937; John served in Film Unit of Royal Air Force...board of British Lion Film Corp. Died: John died in ... Read more

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	STEVEN JAMES PRICE \| SABINA LOUISE HEUSUK \| STEVEN JOHN SULLIVAN \| IAN THOMAS CROWE \| ANNA ELAINE KRAUSS \| HALEY BETH HARING \| SARAH ELIZABETH SCARGILL \| HANNAH LOUISE HOWARD \| CARLI MARIE ADAMS \| JULIA NICOLE BIGONESS \| HANNAH GRACE WATTS \| SPENCER ALEC STEINHOFF \| DAVID MATTHEW LUCHOK \| KENNETH LEO RENC \| AMANDA MARIE BRENNAN \| SYDNEY LOUISE DALE \| MICHAEL BENJAMIN HALL \| DYLAN RAYMOND RICHARDSON \| GALVIN JOSEPH DAY \| KATE ELIZABETH MARKER \| SARAH ANN VRABLIC \| KEVIN CARL OTTO \| GIANNA MINASOLA \| JOHN JAMES EIFLER \| ELIZABETH ALICE PATTON ; ...their third child, a son. Steven John, weighing 6 pounds, 8 ounces...maternal grandparents are Terrie Young of Chesterfield, Mo., and David...daughter, are Frank and Amy Watts. Hannah Grace, weighing 7 pounds...grandparents are Frank and Edna Watts of Westland, Mich. The children... Read more
	The Stone who rolled away... Young bloods: Taylor, ringed, in action with, from left, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman Rock star (retired): Taylor returns from a shopping trip. ; ...On Main Street, and wasdescribed recently by drummer Charlie Watts as 'clearly the best solo guitaristthe Stones had'. Yet after...get cynical about the music business.' Taylorwent on to rejoin John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, with whom he had played beforethe Stones... Read more
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	John Ransford Watts ; ...220 students will do more than 200 Blackstone performances yearly. School mission: "Train and educate the next generation of young artists. We're a teaching conservatory and a national institution." STATS He, wife Joyce live in Evanston. Son David. Boston-bo... Read more
	Leander Watts Stonecutter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article) ; ...in his work, so much so that he is selected by the mysterious John Good to create stone carvings and statues for the great mansion...great opportunity, he does so. But his apprehensions are correct. John Good is a man possessed by a dream; the mansion, a maze of unfinished... Read more
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