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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to get my hands dirty more often. I miss being...
...often before, e.g., when he nationalized the Suez Canal after the U.S. rebuffed his bid for Aswan Dam aid, Nasser had counterpunched. But it was too early to tell whether this time he had counterpunched at the Western sponsors of the Baghdad Pact or the Soviet sponsors of subversion in Syria-or both...
...into the frowsy, unbuttoned atmosphere of the jockey's room, does Willie really relax. Mumbling around a sandwich while he plays a game of pool or knock rummy before a race, Willie almost seems one of the boys. His quick answers are not always cutting; the casual remark is often actually friendly. But warm spontaneity is seen so seldom that even among the other jocks Hartack has no real intimates...
...reports last week for the fourth quarter of 1957, the first quarter of the dip. The trend in most cases was downward, but like the economy itself, the reports added up to a mixture of good and bad. Even in cases where fourth-quarter earnings fell, the fall was often not great enough to prevent the company from totting up record earnings for the year...
...consumers, the lag in the commercial nuclear program is no great worry. With plenty of coal, oil and gas, the U.S. can afford to wait. But what may not be economic for the U.S. is often economic for other nations with less resources. Britain, whose conventional-power costs are estimated at double those in the U.S. (7½ mills per kw-h), needs nuclear power right now; so do many other nations. Britain is going ahead under a nationalized program to build the actual power plants. It has been operating its Calder Hall plant, half again as big as Shippingport...