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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will recognize American people with my art. It is very important for a painter. If it is possible to print it as a book, please, write me which and how many fotografyes you need." Attached to this letter was a warning from the American Embassy: any further correspondence could mean trouble for Glazanov...
McElroy took pains to stress that the ICBM gap will be temporary, and that while it lasts it will not mean a real defense gap. The U.S.. he pointed out, has and will have a "diversified" arsenal, with various means of delivering nuclear retaliatory power...
Urgent Tasks. So long as the U.S. can rely on SAC's destructive might, the ICBM gap of the early 1960s will not mean any gap in the U.S.'s retaliatory power. The missile gap, as Secretary McElroy argued, is no cause for alarm, much less panic...
...going to match the U.S.S.R. "missile for missile" during the next few years, the Administration has two urgent tasks cut out for it. One is to convince the world-Communists, neutralists, allies and the U.S.'s own citizens -that the missile gap will not mean a defense gap. The other is to push Minuteman and Polaris as fast as funds and priorities can push them. If there must be a missile gap, however efficiently it is filled by SAC's bombers, the less time it lasts the better...
...summer Ann Eckels, also of the Theoretical Division, noticed slight peculiarities about Vanguard Beta's orbit. Sometimes it moved a little slower than expected; sometimes it moved faster. Since a satellite's speed reflects the earth's gravitational pull, the changes of pace were interpreted to mean that gravitation varies over broad areas in an unexpected...