Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guided Missile Director William Holaday's; unlike Holaday, he will have authority to let contracts and scrub them when experiments do not pan out. With Holaday, he will report directly and frequently to the man who continues to hold a remarkably firm hand on all U.S. defense activities, Neil Hosler McElroy...
...Chance. He got his chance, months later, the hard way. On the night of Oct. 4, 1957, Von Braun was called to the telephone from a Redstone dinner honoring Defense Secretary-designate Neil Mc-Elroy. Voice on the wire: "New York Times calling, Doctor." Von Braun: "Yes?" Timesman: "Well, what do you think of it?" Von Braun: "Think of what?" Timesman: "The Russian satellite, the one they just orbited...
Thanks for showing the potentialities that Eisenhower saw in Neil McElroy-a position well filled...
...Explorer itself was a special kind of reality. It was smaller and lighter than the Sputniks (30.80 lbs. v. Sputnik I's 184 lbs., Sputnik II's 1,120 lbs.). But its mere appearance in orbit only 84 days after Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order to launch proved beyond doubt that the U.S., had it made the sensible policy decisions, could have launched the first satellite a year before as the Army urged (see below)-or 119 days before...
Such-&-Such a Date. Last Oct. 4, Defense Secretary-designate Neil McElroy, touring U.S. military bases before taking office, was dining in the 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...