Whole Nine Yards update--same story, earlier date +info

[Stephen Goranson]

Thanks, Sam and Bonnie, for your very interesting finds. Two small notes:

1. According to Time magazine Sept 27, 1963
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875178,00.html?promoid=googlep
World Book Encyclopedia Science Service (and Chicago Sun-Times etc.)
was part of an exclusive four year contract to report on astronauts' "personal
stories."

2. Google Books gave a snippet, then no text at all, of a 1992 book, perhaps too
late to bother mentioning, but in case I'm wrong: NASA Engineers and
the Age of Apollo By Sylvia Doughty Fries p.114 quotes from a then-recent
interview with Richard Williams, an engineer hired in 1966 at the Manned
Spacecraft Center. After the 1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion he recounted:
"This simulator at KSC [Kennedy Space Center] was in the configuration that the
mission was in. It simulated the whole nine yards...."

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson


Quoting Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>:

> Just a tiny bit earlier(7 days) citing of that same article, again using
> newspaperarchive this morning.  The search engine seems to be getting better
> day by day.
>
> _San Antonio(TX) Express and News_  18 April 1964  pg 11-A
>
> The only additional thing that was supplied in this earlier article was the
> information that the article was copyrighted by "World Book Encyclopedia
> Science Service, Inc."
>
> Make of that what you will.
>
> Hey, I only find 'em.
>
> SC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Clements" <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:56 PM
> Subject: Whole Nine Yards update(1964)?
>
>
> Newspaper Archive, who has been(rightfully) much maligned the last few weeks
> while they're updating their workings, produces today this cite:
>
> Tucson(AZ) Daily Citizen, 25 April 1964, page 25, a story about NASA.
>
> "Give 'em the whole nine yards" means an item-by-item report on any project.
>
> Make of this what you will.  It may not be what it seems.  I just stopped by
> to report this.
>
> Sam Clements
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