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- From: bob@sunspot.noao.edu (Bob Riegelmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: A Bad Time to Fall Asleep
- Message-ID: <telecom12.674.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 19:51:17 GMT
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- Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP, Sunspot NM, USA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 674, Message 3 of 10
-
- In article <telecom12.667.6@eecs.nwu.edu> TELECOM Moderator
- (telecom@eecs.nwu.edu) writes:
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 667, Message 6 of 6
-
- > Mrs. Fermi and I lived in the same apartment building on East
- > 56th Street, directly across the street from the Museum of Science and
- > Industry, and we chatted and dined together frequently.
-
- Then you must have lived close to my graduate advisor, Russ Donnelly.
- And knew one of my best friends, their son, Jim, (who was still in
- diapers I expect.)
-
- [Moderator's Interjection: I lived in the Windermere Hotel, 56th and
- Stony Island Avenue, and ate in the hotel dining room 'The Anchorage'
- most evenings.]
-
- > In Alamogordo, we checked into the hotel then drove out to where
- > Enrico had been assigned. It was set up that the scientists were
- > deployed over about a two hundred square mile area; we were about
- > fifteen miles from the target.
-
- I now live in Sunspot, 5000 feet straight up from Alamogordo and in
- the hills.
-
- > "Where we stopped was in front of a house on one of the residential
- > streets there, but what looked odd to me was on the side of the house,
- > there were hundreds of wires converging, coming in from a dozen
- > telephone poles which all seemed to meet in the back yard or on the
- > side of the house. And all these wires came down out of the sky you
- > might say, and went in the side of the house in a big bundle.
-
- This fits with the service I get here in the hills. No Class here for
- a long time to come.
-
- > "Really, I can't blame the lady much. The whole summer of 1945 was
- > just horrid. When we arrived the day before, the temperature was over
- > a hundred;
-
- This also fits well, the temps in Alamogordo lately have been in the 90's.
- When it gets really hot, I flee home to the hills, where I can see alamogordo,
- but the daily highs are in the 70's.
-
- > "When I was there in town two weeks ago for the (twentieth
- > anniversary) reunion, just from curiosity I went past that house; it
- > took me awhile to remember where it was.
-
- I could go ask, the house is probably still there.
-
- Small world, huh?
-
- Thanks for posting this, it made my day, I'll forward it on to Jim, if
- he hasn't seen it.
-
-
- Bob Riegelmann bob@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu
- P.O. Box 58 Sunspot, NM 88349-0058
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I would suggest including the lead article in this
- issue with any distribution of the original article however. PAT]
-