Word: paperclip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downhill to invite the Americans to come and capture Peenemünde's top rocketmen. (Says Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke the best English, and I was the most expendable.") The U.S. Army was delighted to accept that invitation and, in a project known as Operation Paperclip, selected Von Braun and 120 of his best team members to go to the U.S. under contract with the Army to build rockets...
...published-and even in the city rooms of many of the papers themselves. He has never made a public speech in his life, he uses a briefcase for his main office, and he carries in his left-hand coat pocket a sheaf of memo paper, held together by a paperclip, showing the status of his papers' cash account. Although he is a registered Democrat, many of his eleven dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past ten years has moved...
...Schreiber, it developed, had been brought to the U.S. in a Defense Department scoop-up of German technical men known as "Operation Paperclip." His job: consultant to the Air Force in a division with the grandiloquent title "Global Preventive Medicine." He was living comfortably in San Antonio with his wife and his son Paul, 17, a student at Alamo Heights High School...
...Back to Paperclip. Confronted with this background, and asked what Consultant Schreiber was doing to advance Global Preventive Medicine, the Air Force stammered out some seemingly contradictory statements: 1) he was working merely on unclassified matters, 2) the project was classified confidential and could not be discussed. The Air Force said it knew nothing of these echoes of Nürnberg when it engaged Schreiber, and had no good way of sifting them...
...thing the Air Force was sure of: Schreiber's six-month contract as a consultant expired last week and it will not be renewed. The Air Force bucked Schreiber back to Operation Paperclip, which had no way of pronouncing him guilty or innocent either, but which might send him home...