Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortlived; a panel of scientists sailed into the picture to recommend that the U.S. satellite become a project for the International Geophysical Year, and decided to put their money on the beautifully designed but totally untried Navy Vanguard. Argued Wernher von Braun: "This is not a design contest. It is a contest to get a satellite into orbit, and we're way ahead on this." He was overruled. In the astonishing 1955 decision to divorce satellite development from weaponry, the Vanguard was accepted as having more "dignity." Snorted Wernher von Braun at the time...
...GIVEAWAY, a 300,000-entry employee contest, will pay $500,000 for best letters on what automaker's first 50 years have meant to workers, their families and communities. First of some 5,000 prizes is $35,000 house...
...officers' club at Huntsville when Wernher von Braun was called from the table to the telephone. Von Braun returned red-faced: he had just been told that the Russians had launched Sputnik I. Next morning Von Braun urged McElroy to put Jupiter-C into the satellite contest. During the next few weeks, McElroy received more than 100 ideas from the services for putting a U.S. satellite into space. Finally, on Nov. 8, McElroy announced his decision: to backstop Vanguard, the Army was ordered to "proceed with preparations for launching a scientific satellite by use of a modified Jupiter...
More for Peanuts. "In such a contest we have abundant ammunition. We do not need to bring up the military catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scientific catastrophe of losing our atomic secrets. Nor do we need to dwell on policies that led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the plight of our defenses when the invasion began, nor the handcuffs put upon our conduct of that war. We need not even refer to the tragic loss of China, nor the surrender of positions of freedom throughout the world. We can also ignore at the moment the wasteful...
...every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But no one with decent eyesight took the sneers seriously; the matches were too tough, too tense to be the least bit phony. In Sydney a fine two-hour contest of four sets sent Pancho to the showers with an aching forearm muscle and a stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide. Pancho's tennis-toughened hands took such a beating that he lost in five sets and left the court with three fingers bleeding. Next day, heckled...