Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SATELLITES: The day after the President's speech the Administration provoked more interservice rivalry by blowing an opening whistle on an Army-Navy satellite game. To the surprise of both Army and Navy, Defense Secretary McElroy shifted dramatically from the Administration position that the Navy's Vanguard Project is coming along on schedule and is all the satellite program the U.S. needs, ordered that Vanguard be "supplemented" by the Army, which has long insisted it could put a satellite into outer space with its Jupiter-C test rocket (in September 1956 a Jupiter-C was fired...
...Germany had succeeded in bringing about atomic fission. Shortly afterward, the U.S. incurred the first major installment of its massive debt to Hungarian-born scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic Bay, N.Y., where Einstein was vacationing. Einstein signed, and the eventual result was the Manhattan Engineer District project that produced history...
Teller did not know it then, but the trip to Peconic Bay was a turning point in his life-the start of his deep involvement in weaponry, war and politics. When he went to Columbia to work with Szilard on an atomic-energy project, Teller intended to go back to George Washington some day and resume his pure-science investigations into the minute structure of matter. That day never came. In 1943 he found himself heading to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos A-bomb lab. Recalls Teller: "I was then on leave of absence from the Chicago...
...various agreements formulated for the International Geophysical Year, each nation supporting the satellite project agreed in effect to the legal validity of the project and did not quibble about violations of its air space. If, however, reconnaissance or military satellites are built, what would be the legal rights a country has to prevent their passing over its territory...
Most discouraging of all, Boston's soaring rates scare away the new industries which might halt the trend by bringing in new income to the city. Recently, the Prudential Life Insurance Company cancelled plans for a Boston project for this reason. Instead of industries, tax-exempt institutions have invaded the Metropolitan area, many of them serving state-wide and even nationwide interests, as do Harvard and M.I.T., for example. Boston is rapidly becoming a city of students, scientists, and humanitarians--which is fine for everyone except the tax-paying manufacturer...