Dr. George Mueller
arrived and entered the room. A magnifying glass was obtained and the three
examined the sample. Mrs. Ria Fox arrived. She seemed to think that Dr. Fox's
bonnet was quite cute.
By this time most
of the Institute personnel and three UM maintenance men had seen the sample.
It was after 5 PM and people started heading for home.
"Guarding"
the Lunar Sample
For some reason,
there was concern that some unknown person or persons might try to get to
the lunar sample while the Institute was closed at night. So several of the
graduate students were hired to spend the night in the building until folks
were satisfied that nothing was going to happen.
Janet and I spent the first night in the building. We had been instructed
that if anyone tried to get into the building we were to leave the building
by some other exit and call the police, who would take care of the intruders.
Sometime early the next morning someone began rattling the back door of the
building, making a lot of noise. So Janet and I, as directed, went out the
front door and headed for my lab at 521 Anastasia. As we left the front of
the building we could see down the side to the end "under siege." There was
a group of three or four maintenance people milling about. No one had informed
them that the building would be locked so that they couldn't get in to do
their job. We let them know what was going on and they went on to work at
the next building. Janet and I returned to baby sitting the lunar sample.
No one else tried to break in to get at the sample.
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