Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correct your book critic's implication that Rally Round the Flag, Boys! [Dec. 30] is being enjoyed only by the retarded, may I point out that the book received excellent notices in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and a couple of hundred other newspapers...
Restoring Oppenheimer's security clearance would correct an obvious injustice and at the same time encourage needed scientific talent to enter government service...
Designing a successful solid-fuel rocket is largely a matter of matching the burning rate of the fuel to the nozzle through which the gases escape. This is not easy for skilled experts. For kids with a collection of pipe fittings, a couple of chemicals and almost no knowledge, correct calculation is almost impossible. Many of their rockets are like the crude pipe-bombs that the Mad Bomber hid in Manhattan movie theaters. Some are much worse. Kids are apparently able to acquire most of the hair-raising chemicals that they have been reading about in books on rockets...
...work done by the House Government Information Subcommittee in pointing out the faults of our security system has been encouraging, but hardly sufficient. To correct present regulations will require a new approach to public relations in Washington, but such a shift is not impossible...
...into which Canada and the U.S. are divided for defensive action. Into SAGE computers will be fed information about aircraft anywhere within the Air Division's radar area. This information will instantaneously be translated into symbols on TV-like picture tubes, showing current air situations, and automatically calculating correct employment of defense weapons...