Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER so often a news story has such extensive ramifications that it spills over into several TIME departments. Project Argus, in which man for the first time spun a web of electrons around the whole world, was such a story and demonstrated that TIME'S editorial technique can as easily dissect an unwieldy mass of detail into manageable pieces as it can assemble scattered facts into a terse whole...
...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...history of how one of the nation's most responsible journalists learned of Project Argus, kept the story under wraps for six months out of a sense of personal responsibility, and why and how he finally decided to break it. see PRESS, The Times & the Secret...
...gigantic experiment. Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard describes the intricate mechanics of what happened as a shell of electrons enveloped the earth, explores what is known and not yet told of the scientific implications, and provides an intimate look at the remarkable self-taught physicist who conceived Project Argus. See SCIENCE, Veil Around the World and Up from the Elevator...
...Advanced Placement program is developing too rapidly for its own good, the latest reports of its founders indicate. Last year 3,000 people took the tests; this year 17,000 are expected to register. The Educational Testing Service, which runs the project, expects to lose $100,000 on the A.P. program this year and even more in the future...