Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1950 Western trade with the Communist orbit has been supervised by the Consultative Group, a 15-nation organization whose working committees COCOM and CHINCOM, maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European...
Satellites First. The first stage of military space flight after the earth-to-earth missiles will probably be an unmanned reconnaissance satellite. The peaceful, 212-lb. satellite of Project Vanguard will have no military value, but rocket motors exist that can put a much heavier satellite into a permanent orbit. If big enough, it could carry a telescope and a scanning device to send radio pictures of what it sees down to its sponsors. It might also report bursts of heat or light: signs that someone has exploded a nuclear charge or fired a large missile on the far side...
Miss Ward attributed much of the present Suez crisis to the State Department's "complete rebuff" of President Nasser "I am still unconvinced that he wants to become a satellite in the Soviet orbit...
...small satellites have been seen, of course, even with the biggest telescope, but this is not surprising. To stay in an orbit near the earth, a satellite must move so fast that it will flash across the narrow field of an ordinary telescope without making any impression on the photographic plate. To have a good chance of catching a satellite, a telescope would have to have a wide field of view, and it would have to sweep across the sky at about the same speed as the satellite that it is hunting...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed...