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...Suite 361 of the Senate Office Building, Vice President Richard Nixon was working on a bulky folder of business letters when the intercom buzzed. Nixon picked up the phone, heard the receptionist announce from an outer office: "Governor Adams on red." Nixon pushed the red button: "Yes, Sherm?" Came the dry voice of White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams: "Can you come down here soon?" Replied Nixon: "Yes." Asked Adams, with an uncharacteristic note of urgency: "Could you come right away?" "Sure," said Nixon. "Fine," said Adams-and the telephone clicked...
...than mere advocacy: Nixon was told to "develop an approach" to foreign aid and foreign trade. Nixon's self-confidence grew with added responsibilities. He never clears a speech ahead of time with the White House. Thus, even after Sherman Adams had dismissed the satellite race as an "outer-space basketball game," Nixon knew he was on sound ground in going to San Francisco and speaking out loud and clear on the deadly seriousness of the Sputniks. Said he later: "I thought somebody ought...
...integrated and highly automatic system required-in the limited time available -to detect an ICBM on its way. track it, predict its trajectory and, at the proper instant, launch an intercept missile with nuclear or thermonuclear warhead. And what is the proper instant? When the missile is still in outer space? Or after it has slowed within the atmosphere? How will the system operate if a Hydra-headed missile rains down multiple charges or decoys? Or takes aerodynamic evasive action? Or orbits before plunging (see SCIENCE...
...short time in the heat-generating atmosphere, then soar up to peaceful space to cool off. Ferri's missile designed to follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride in is a pressurized, insulated sphere sheltered from heat and wind pressure inside the bow of the space toboggan...
Since the particles started their flights at an altitude where there is still a little air, they were probably slowed down considerably by it. But Dubin thinks that some of them may have reached outer space while still moving about 30,000 m.p.h. This exceeds the escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.) that is necessary to carry an object beyond the pull of the earth's gravitation. Any particles that did escape moved into the sun's gravitational jurisdiction. They will either 1) be swallowed by the sun, or 2) move around it on elliptical, cometlike orbits...