Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico City-based Photographer Juan Guzman, photographing the ancient remnants of Olmec and Mayan culture has been a long labor of love. Making it a vacation and free-time project, he spent nearly two years completing his self-set assignment, traveled by car, private plane, horseback and at times proceeded on foot, machete in hand. Most difficult site was Yaxchilan in the almost inaccessible Chiapas jungle. To get there, Guzman had to fly in, clear the site by hand, wait for days for a break in the rain. For a view of what Guzman brought out, including the first color...
Pending that review, the U.S. does not plan 1) any "dollars-be-damned" crash program in missile development, 2) any change from the present Army, Navy, Air Force development program in favor of a Manhattan Project sort of effort, or 3) any quick decision between the Air Force Thor and the Army Jupiter as the U.S. intermediate-range missile. At first, the McElroy review will aim at unclogging existing bottlenecks; e.g., almost certain to go is the curb on overtime pay at missile centers. At a subsequent Cabinet meeting the decision was made to unloose purse strings on rocket work...
...wisecrack much repeated in the U.S. last week was that Project Vanguard, the U.S.'s earth-satellite program, ought to be renamed Project Rearguard. This clothed in humor the widespread feeling of resentment stirred up by the Russians' great cold-war propaganda victory. Inevitably, the question arose: Who's to blame...
...before Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
Before Von Braun's "Project Orbiter" got off the ground, an International Geophysical Year panel, meeting in Rome in October 1954, called for earth-satellite launchings during IGY (July 1957 to December 1958). At the urging of the U.S.'s IGY committee, the Eisenhower Administration decided, in mid-1955, to undertake a satellite program as part of the nation's IGY effort. The basic top-level decision then to be made was how to run the project. The twofold decision that emerged from the National Security Council: 1) keep the satellite project separate from military ballistic-missile...