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...Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust multi-chamber rocket engine); NASA, under Engineer T. Keith Glennan, oversees civilian projects (Project Mercury, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust single-chamber engine). But the division is arbitrary, a response to prejudices and rivalries rather than to the realities of the challenge. More serious than the inevitable duplications between ARPA...
...trap door, the secret between-floors passage and the hidden room which date back to the 1800's and Professor of Latin Charles Beck. Beck, it seems, was an ardent abolitionist. It appears that he had these devices constructed for the Underground Railway. The trapdoor leads to a secret chamber at the end of which a laddered well descends to the basement. During the twenties this apparatus constituted great fun and games for freshmen and section men who used to climb up an down the shaft. Unfortunately, the passage was subsequently boarded up as a safety measure...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce has picked Henry A. Kissinger '50, associate director of the Center for International Affairs, as one of the ten outstanding young men of the year...
...would take on the force of law. Thus, a liberal Senate minority--and there have been numbers of them--could be effectively silenced by what, at the moment, looks like a very liberal move. There is no guarantee that a simple majority of Senators on the floor of their chamber will always act wisely; there is, in fact, a far greater likelihood that such a simple majority could be stampeded into precipitate action...
...connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...