Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services of a new type of general staff, i.e., "an advisory military staff to assist him in resolving the honest differences of opinion that now occur between dedicated military people." Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, insisted that if the U.S. had treated its own satellite as less of a bauble, had assigned it higher priority, "I think that we probably would have come very close to the same time [as Sputnik I], if not ahead of them...
...with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons' 20-mile balloon ascent, capturing some of the suspense and loneliness of his mission. The show made a promising start in a major TV project, though its promise somewhat outstripped its performance. Like Walt Disney's learned japery (see below), Conquest's science reporting avoided condescension and cuteness, but the commentary suffered from a kind of Sunday-supplement inflation that too often made the pictures seem inadequate or anticlimactic. Cured of this fault...
Unfortuntely for the future and present safety of this nation, neither amusement nor ranting about the Vanguard project will remove the serious flaws of our missles program. The need is not for recriminations about the timing and publicity of the Vanguard project, but for a series of drastic changes in this nation's system of missile research, production, and control...
...inefficiency of the present organization for missiles development, failures of the Vanguard type and dangerous laggings in ICBM development can only be expected. The present hydra-headed system produces innumerable delays in production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard. In another...
...this nation is to match Russia's ballistic missiles, our own program must be overhauled. There is an obvious need for a real missile czar who would rule an independent commission with its own budget of the Manhattan Project type. Such a group would control the development of all missiles and would allocate these weapons to the armed services on the basis of a strict formula. This commission would end duplications and rivalries. With the necessary power and financing, it would prove far more efficient than the present system. In long range terms, the board would be better able...