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...efforts to serve and to learn have brought him into contact with experts in every field of governmental activity. One recent week, surveying the scope of U.S. missile programs and potentialities. Nixon talked to Air Force Missile Chief Bernard Schriever, Army Rockets Boss John Medaris, Army Scientist Wernher Von Braun, Physicist Edward Teller and Presidential Science Adviser Killian. That same week he surprised Dr. James G. Miller, head of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia in the field...
...freely over the landscapes of strange planets and depicts in scientifically rooted detail how an atomic-powered space craft may some day make an interplanetary flight with a crew that could find a way to survive on Mars. Solidly researched, the show presents expert testimony from Dr. Wernher Von Braun, chief of the U.S. Army's rocket program, and other scientists. No less expert is the comic ingenuity lavished on illustrating man's fanciful speculation about life on other planets-a menagerie of Mercurian thing-amajigs and Saturnian whatchamacallits that goes as far out of this world...
...Wernher von Braun-a man of great imagination and farsighted wisdom. He is our only hope in the missiles race...
...Germany's leading rocket engineers before and during World War II, was named technical assistant to President Leston Faneuf of Bell Aircraft Corp. Dornberger directed V-1 and rocket-powered V-2 missiles at Peenemunde, Germany's big rocket-research center, where he bossed Wernher von Braun, a top U.S. Army missile expert. Dornberger later developed Bell's Rascal, air-to-surface guided missile how used by the Strategic Air Command...
...Department's "arbitrary," "rigid" and "dangerous" ruling that Army missiles must be limited to 200 miles ground to ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced in the free world...