Word: cea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent just this, a tax hike was urged privately but none too effectively by Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and publicly by such former CEA chairmen as Walter Heller, Arthur Burns and Raymond Saulnier, as well as the Federal Reserve's Chairman William McChesney Martin. Johnson rejected the advice. Administration insiders say that the President took soundings on Capitol Hill and decided that he could not persuade Congress to pass a tax increase in an election year. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills and Senate Finance Chairman Russell Long opposed...
Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford St., and these are tied in with the IBM 360/50 at the Center. The small machines gather data from the experiment, and pass it on to the larger computer where it is processed. The results are instantaneously fed back to the small machines to be displayed to the scientists...
...equipment was designed by CEA staff members last year, after three earlier designs had been rejected as too costly by the Atomic Energy Commission, which funds all CEA projects...
Last year, the CEA turned to planning a cheaper alternative -- converting its present accelerator, with its one stream of electrons, into a tool for high-energy physics...
Although the Atomic Energy Commission is believed to have approved the injector proposal, lit is reported to have cut $350,000 that the CEA requested for other improvements...