Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with interest that I read of the proposed congressional investigation of the collision of two foreign-flag vessels outside U.S. territorial waters [;Aug 6]. If one is to project the righteous trumpetings of Representative Bonner on the subject of protecting the American traveler abroad, will the death of a U.S. citizen in a train wreck in Buenos Aires necessitate a congressional investigation of the Argentine State Railways...
Meanwhile, Navy scientists charged with the operational phase of Project Vanguard were indicating that other blueprints are gradually evolving into hardware. Planning is "about completed" on the first two stages of the rocket that will lift the moon to about 130 miles altitude, says the Navy, and is finished on the final, payoff stage that will push the moon into its orbit. Engines for all three stages have roared through ground tests. Engineers are confident that they will lick one bugaboo: heat damage to the nose of the rocket caused by aerodynamic friction...
Some skeptical scientists have wondered if Vanguard would ever get off the ground. Navy specialists are sure the man-made moon will rise as planned. Says Physicist John P. Hagen. the Navy's director of Project Vanguard: "It is fair to say that at the moment we see no problem we cannot solve as scheduled...
...would be no organ. But the services would still be unmistakably Reform. Says Glueck: "I am no missionary for American Reform Judaism, but I am interested in seeing that there is freedom of religion in Israel ... I hate ghettos and the ghetto spirit, and the rabbinate is trying to project this spirit into the country. They have developed a petrified ghetto psychology they think is Judaism...
...cards. But, when Paycha's robot doctor was displayed at the World Cybernetics Congress in Namur, Belgium, expert ophthalmologists welcomed it because its memory is infallible. To brief his machine on the cornea, Dr. Paycha fed it a whole textbook plus references to articles in medical journals. Next project: glaucoma and diseases of the iris. Inventor Paycha believes his robot will work for any organ. His ultimate goal: to have a medical publishing house prepare sets of the cards so that mass health surveys as well as medical colleges and hospitals may use cybernetic diagnosis...