Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuffle of letters to Western chiefs of government and cocktail-party comments to Western diplomats, the Kremlin has been working hard to spread the notion that a parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before...
...Broomstick Would Do. Yet for all the rivalry, hard-working servicemen and civilian specialists along the whole broad front of U.S. missilery felt a new nearness to space as Explorer radioed back its readings (see SCIENCE). And of the legions of scientists, generals, admirals, engineers and administrators at work on missiles and man-made moons, German-born Wernher von Braun, 45, best personified man's accelerating drive to rise above the planet. Von Braun, in fact, has only one interest: the conquest of space, which he calls man's greatest venture. To pursue his lifelong dream...
...notion that Von Braun might be trying to beat the Navy into space with an unauthorized-and presumably undignified-major satellite. The Army, which had had the foresight to bring Von Braun and his team to the U.S. in the first place, and which had supported him all along in the face of awesome obstacles, would have liked nothing better than for him to toss up the first U.S. satellite. Such men as Lieut. General James Gavin, the brainy chief of Research and Development, and Major General John Medaris, the able military commander at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency...
...bulk of the program. Builders are largely on their own, working under fixed-price contracts with risk of heavy losses. As a result, one small experimental plant is completed, only four are under construction. Two others have been contracted for, but negotiations with AEC for another five are poking along, and four more have been canceled...
...programs. Those are our three biggest customers. And there was that price; when it climbed past 40? some of our customers began to bail out. I don't mean to put the blame for that 46? price at everywhere else but this company's door. I went along with the rest. Now we're paying for it." Copper producers are paying for it with surplus stocks; domestic deliveries last year were 1,274,868 tons v. production of 1,613,907. In December alone, deliveries were but 84,611 tons v. production of 136,135. Only...