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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whipple is a member of a panel of five world-famous scientists chosen by Collier's to contribute their opinions on how man will conquer space. The findings of the panel appear in the current issue of Collier's as a series of five articles on various aspects of the problem...
Since Caesar's legions and Hannibal's elephants crossed the Alps on footpaths, man has been waging a slow battle to conquer Europe's rock curtain. In 1800 Napoleon widened the Alpine trails and made them military roads. By 1820 the St. Gotthard pass had been widened to 18 feet, enough for two-way carriage traffic, but only in summer. Then in 1870 the eight-mile Mount Cenis railway tunnel, an engineering marvel in its day, was holed through...
Sabres & MIGs. There have also been the usual design problems. The Air Force doesn't want to jell its designs for mass production until it is sure they are equal to the job. F-86 Sabre jet pilots back from Korea say they need more powerful engines to conquer the Russian MIGs; other pilots say that the after burners on newer jets have not added the expected speed, must be redesigned. F-86 production is shamefully low. It could be three times higher, the Air Force says, if the U.S. hadn't deliberately spent its time & money helping...
Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, who in 1944 was pinned down by German machine-gun fire at a forward command post near Metz, was in Korea last week for another firsthand look at war. "I've never seen anything like it," she said. "Our troops conquer one hill and go right on to the next. They are thrown back and then recapture it, are thrown back and then recapture it. There is no rest, no respite. We haven't the remotest idea of the kind of warfare our men are engaged...
Says one youthful observer who still likes his dreams bigger: "This generation suffers from lack of worlds to conquer. Its fathers in a sense, did too well. Sure, there are slums left-but another Federal housing project can clean up the worst. Most of the fights in labor have simmered down to arguments around the bargaining table. Would-be heroes find themselves padded from har-and hope-like lunatics in a cell. In business, the tax structure, social security and pension plans promise to soften the blow of depression or personal misfortune-and forbid the building of new empires...