Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animal origin to cooking oils of vegetable origin. After Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page suggested that such a diet change was due for wide-scale trial (TIME, Jan. 5), Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe reported that 79 men. aged 50 to 59, enrolled in a New York City project dubbed the "Anti-Coronary Club." had stuck to such a diet for at least six months and gone about their normal business uncomplaining. But many a housewife still asks: Is a lowered-fat, cholesterol-reducing diet practical in the average home...
...Secret nuclear test detonations at more than 300 miles above the earth were conducted by the United States early last September." So began last week the year's biggest news beat: a report by New York Times Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin on Project Argus-an attempt to gauge the behavior of high-speed electrons in the earth's magnetic field (see SCIENCE). The story was much more than a beat. Working on Argus, Reporter Baldwin months ago got into the precarious position of having to decide when and how-if at all-to use material that could...
...Pulitzer Prize for his 1942 series on combat in the South Pacific that included the disclosure of the U.S. plight on Guadalcanal. Working his beat, Baldwin first came across Argus "some weeks" before the late August and early September tests, got together the outline of the project "without limitation...
Developing the Story. Baldwin called in scholarly Science Reporter Walter Sullivan, 41, went to work developing the story further from a score of sources (including some top Pentagon scientists), worked so secretly that even the Times's Washington bureau had no inkling of the project. After the tests, the pair found many scientists who wanted all the data made public, but none who was able-or willing-to lay it all out in one package. As their material grew, the Timesmen repeatedly urged the Pentagon to release the story in full...
...Unprepared Pentagon.Despite this tipoff, the Pentagon was totally unprepared when the Times hit the streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that...