Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with post-Sputnik hindsight, Director I. M. Levitt of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium called that 1955 decision an "astonishing piece of stupidity." Levitt's argument, echoed by Army missilemen: the Army's Jupiter intermediate ballistic missile, well along in 1955, could and should have been adapted for launching a satellite (a modified Jupiter has reached an altitude of 650 miles, higher than Sputnik's orbit). But when it was made, the National Security Council decision seemed sensible enough. The U.S. had committed itself to pass on to the rest of the world, including Russia...
...less than $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistic-missile projects. The Eisenhower Administration decided in 1954 to push ballistic-missile development, after the physicists decided that they could make a hydrogen warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile. The Russians, well along on missilery with or without an atomic warhead, had a head start that the U.S. urgently needed to narrow. In mid-1955 that need was still urgent...
...months ago: "We are not attempting in any way to race with the Russians." But in the eyes of the world, the U.S. was in a satellite race whether it wanted to be or not, and because of the Administration's costly failure of imagination, Project Vanguard shuffled along when it should have been running. It was still shuffling when Sputnik's beeps told the world that Russia's satellite program, not the U.S.'s, was the vanguard...
Among the oldtime Japanese residents of the valley were Takeo Harry Momita and his wife Shizuko Helen, who operated a series of little drugstores from 1927 until 1942 when they-along with 110,000 West Coast Japanese and their American-born youngsters-were herded into Army relocation camps for the duration. In 1945 they came back to the valley amid uneasiness and tension, scraped up money for another store, entered their children in public schools. When they moved to Calipatria, things began to get better; the youngsters began to run off with honors in school, and son Milton was named...
Five years ago this industry-transportation hub of New Jersey threatened to spin out the best remaining elements in town. Newark's long-entrenched, pie-splitting, five-commissioner government was whirling merrily along, copying notorious Jersey City in petty graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says...