Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering brainpower and research facilities were unlimited, the ideal missile program for the U.S. might indeed be to let all three services go on developing complete missile inventories. But with resources tightly limited, the U.S. cannot afford to let competition sprawl into scatteration and wasteful overlapping. In the post-Sputnik crisis, continuation of interservice rivalry can only be regarded as the easy way out. Some hard decisions must be made, and they must be made in the Pentagon and the White House...
...Evenings Erhard dined heavily on Franconian smoked meat and dumplings, played the piano or took a hand at Doppelkopf (a four-handed card game) with his institute associates. After World War II broke out, local Nazis pressed Erhard to join Hitler's Labor Front. He refused, lost his post and founded an institute of his own. Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies of postwar economic prospects. One such report fell into...
...White House said President Eisenhower accepted the resignation and will appoint Dep. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers Jr. to the Cabinet post. Rogers is a close friend of Vice President Nixon...
Clearly some such post should be created. At present there is no one close to the President thoroughly conversant with scientific developments, and, consequently, the government's missile program is muddled and inefficient. The army and the navy seem far more inclined to fire missiles at each other than into outer space...
...there is real need for an independent-minded scientist in the highest echelons of government. The practical way to get one there is to create a post for a distinguished scientist directly under the President, as a member of the White House staff. From this vantage point, a scientist could serve as a liaison between the President and the nation's research workers, and give independent advice about the government's own projects...