‘Get the girl to check the numbers’

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In the new 20th Century Fox film “Hidden Figures,” opening wide on Friday (Jan. 6), John Glenn (Glen Powell) directs NASA to “get the girl to check the numbers.” It is a line taken straight from history, referring to mathematician Katherine Johnson and the orbital trajectory calculated by dual IBM computers. But when exactly did the astronaut speak those words?

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