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...story of the V-2s has usually been told by the young enthusiasts. Now it is told by a German general who put them to work for the German army. Under his direction the rocketeers' dreams of space fligts. turned into a hardheaded weapons project, then into a nightmare, as the Nazi government fell into corruption and Hitler's Reich turned to rubble under Allied attack...
...imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
...particular attraction for sports-car buyers: the jetlike scream produced at high speed by the air scoop in front. The TR-2 will go on sale in the U.S. early in September at about $1,500 plus taxes. One enthusiastic group of U.S. agents has already ordered 100 TR-2s a week for an entire year...
This opinion is seconded by a German-speaking U.S. Army officer who was sent to collapsing Germany in 1945 to gather technical information. He went into the fabulous underground factory at Nordhausen where the V-2s were assembled, and found the director still in his office...
...director broke down and wept when he talked of the V-2s. "For each V-2," he said, "we could have built at least one jet fighter, and each jet fighter would have shot down at least one of your bombers, that have destroyed our country." The feeling of many (though not all) practical missile men is that Von Braun's satellite proposal would fail and would leave the U.S. without the new weapons it needs. These men think that the best way to achieve space flight, whether for military or peaceful reasons, is to continue with the present...