Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missile Director Holaday's testimony accurately reflects the kind of top management the U.S. missile program has been getting, the Senate Subcommittee clearly has its work cut out for it. And the high civilian command in the Pentagon is likely to be hopping busily from spot to hot spot...
Survival Plus Success. Buoyed by such enthusiasm for his job, Polarman Siple pulled off one of the major U.S. contributions to the International Geophysical Year: he led 17 Navy and civilian specialists through one full year at the pole. Last week, back in Washington, Siple was picking up a trayful of scientific medals for his work. The data his team accumulated were still being processed, but the very fact that it brought back any data at all made the expedition a success. Said Siple: "We had been told privately that it would have been sufficient for that first winter...
...gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will not be despondent...
...Defense Department is getting ready to launch a new organization-Advanced Research Projects Agency-to be headed by a civilian with top-level executive capacity, a scientific background and a strong bridge to the scientific community. ARPA will take responsibility for the study and development of antimissile missiles, the weapons possibilities of satellites, all other novel weapons systems. ARPA's responsibility will extend only over development; once weapons reach operational stage, the services will take over...
...return to political sanity. Then, flying to Spain, he sat down amicably with exiled Laureano Gómez, once furiously hated by all Liberals, and persuaded him to agree to the essentials of a plan for sharing power between the parties. The truce, giving promise of responsible civilian government in the future, played an important role when the present caretaker military junta took over from Rojas Pinilla last May. Last week's plebiscite certified the success of Lleras' long effort...