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...Gard Wiggins, adminstrative vice-President said late last night that the University has received the request but as yet has not furnished the information requested. He did not specify the nature of the AEC's inquiry, but said that it was not a security check of CEA personnel...
...spokesman for the AEC said last night that "virtually any research contract recognizes the possibility that classified information could be developed and that if this should happen, legal requirements regarding security classification would come into play...
...added that when the Cambridge project was initiated the AEC did not anticipate that classified information would be developed and that "no such information has developed at the CEA to the present time." Thus, there has been no need for the AEC to require a security check of personnel working at the accelerator, he explained...
Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
...authorities no longer feel driven to solve the enormously difficult design problems of a nuclear-powered aircraft. But the Pratt & Whitney engineers who sweated over the complexities of the atom plane's engine are still determined to get some sort of nuclear reactor aloft. They are working for AEC now, and last week the commission allowed them to give a glimpse of their top-secret labs...