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...better than Jules Verne? Nearly 100 years ago he sent the Nautilus under arctic ice; he rocketed men and dogs into outer space; he tunneled deep and he ballooned high...
...Russians have messed up their life on earth, their treatment of their fellowmen has shut them out of heaven-so there is no place for them to go but outer space...
...have full power "to direct all activities in the Department of Defense relating to research, development, engineering, production and procurement of guided missiles," i.e., to crack down on interservice rivalries. ¶ Defense Secretary Neil McElroy said that within a month he would appoint a single manager for new outer-space and anti-missile missilery programs...
...huge appropriations and long months of testing are needed before it can be superimposed on NORAD's present defenses. Nike-Zeus and Wizard anti-missile missile systems, and an Air Force Special Weapons Center's proposal to use nuclear explosions as defense weapons against ICBMs in outer space, are similarly far from test stage. "The new system, the one we must have," says General Partridge, "will embrace the basic principles of the present system, but we will have to speed it up from minutes to three, four or five seconds...
American rocket progress also aroused comment yesterday at the Observatory. The Air Force announced that small aluminum pellets, about the size of beebees, were shot from the nose of an Aerobee rocket 54 miles above earth "in an effort to gain information about outer space...