Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This morning the greatest step of the first part will be completed when Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation, will dedicate the new 60-foot George R. Agassiz radio telescope at Harvard. This instrument, the second largest in the world, will be in operation shortly, supplementing but not replacing the 24-foot telescope already at Agassiz...
...This new instrument will aid immensely in the development of the young science of radio astronomy. It will receive invisible waves from outer space, enabling astronomers to chart the fine structure of our galaxy and analyze its invisible components such as radio stars and gas stars...
...stick safely to its orbit. Reaching orbital speed is the job of the third-stage rocket. The final rocket will be small and will use solid fuel, which requires no tricky pumps or valves. It will fire for 30-60 seconds, depending on how much accelera tion the delicate instruments in the satellite can take without damage. When the fuel is gone, the burned-out rocket will be on an orbit. Rosen figures that it will have enough speed to carry it around an ellipse whose apogee (highest point) will be 1.400 miles above the earth and whose perigee (lowest...
This sketch of the social and economic groups which may merge into a new majority alignment or dissent from it is necessarily brief, incomplete, and tentative. It is clear in any event that neither of the two political parties can in itself provide the completely effective political instrument for such a majority. As with the earlier shifts in basic alignment we have discussed, a new grouping that is really adequate to the world challenge is almost certain at many points to cut across existing party lines and the narrower interests now reflected in them...
American political life, as I have suggested, can be seen in terms of a few relatively long periods, each dominated by a fairly stable coalition of the interests and factions Madison described--a semipermanent majority with a rough consensus on immediate public questions. Each new coalition finds its instrument in one of the two major political parties. Which one is determined by a complex interaction of traditions and loyalties, leadership and inspiration, strategy and accident. Because that party is identified with a widely accepted view on current issues, it develops a commanding position in the national government...