Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala., stands out as the inspirational as well as the scientific leader of the Men of Jupiter. At 18 Von Braun was working with crude liquid-fuel rockets, using Berlin's municipal dump; one day a black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenemünde, he built Germany's V2, which rained ruin on Britain. Caught between...
...electrical engineering, a doctorate in physics. During World War II he headed up the Army's investigation of Japanese incendiary balloon attacks on the West Coast. After World War II he studied guided-missile work with Caltech Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman in Germany and Japan, decided that German work had been overestimated, Japanese work underestimated. Now at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pickering directs about 2,000 highly skilled men and women, controls a budget of some $25 million (most of it from the Army), has only one reservation about his big administrative job: "I'd like...
...maintained its leadership." West Germany's Welt am Sonntag observed that "space no longer belongs to the Soviet Union alone. America has caught up with the Soviet Sputnik lead." It added, with pardonable local pride, that the achievement was "a personal triumph for Wernher von Braun and his German colleagues...
...general from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense...
...while, it was being tracked from the ground in four different electronic ways, and Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, German-born rocket expert, was waiting for a complicated instrumental setup to tell him the exact time to ignite the second stage and "inject" the satellite into its orbit. When the shortened assembly reached about 200 miles altitude and was pointing in the right direction, he pressed a button...