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Bernard Smith (right) sets up ARS Experimental Rocket 

 No. 3 for a public launching in 1932. 



short cut was to go to college. So, one day I sold my tools and my 

 house and went off to the first college that would admit me and that 

 happened to be Reed College. After I came out, there was a question of 

 employment in 1948, and I first applied to a number of universities to 

 do graduate work. They didn't like my age. That was pretty late to start 



