Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adviser James R. Killian down, have proved to be naysayers and quibblers, among other things stirring up a futile, irrelevant dispute over whether space is a "civilian" or "military" realm. Reflecting this dispute, U.S. space programs are split between two bureaucratic domains: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust multi-chamber rocket engine); NASA...
...beloved Aswan Dam by offering him $50 million to help build it. Then Bonn for the first time learned about a vital clause in Nasser's December agreement with Moscow. The Russians had demanded and apparently got a veto over all contracts for the first section of the project-building a cofferdam, dividing the Nile around the site, etc. Asked Izvestia sweetly: "Do they [the West Germans] wish to make commitments on the second section of the dam five years beforehand?" In other words, Nasser is stuck with the Russians exclusively at the dam site until 1964, and they...
...high school remember a time when sensible citizens considered space flight as impractical as hunting leprechauns. Only ten years ago the altitude record for rockets, 250 miles, was held a brilliant achievement. Only two years ago, the earth satellite, that humblest of space vehicles, seemed an almost impossible project...
...program is roughly similar. A "soft" instrument landing on the moon may be accomplished in 1960. Putting a man in space will take longer. A protected capsule to bring him back alive is already under development. One of the preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...
...university's overseas base, twelve miles from Stuttgart, is a rarity-other American colleges and universities let their undergraduates study abroad, but -few have foreign campuses-and Stanford is well pleased with the project. Because classes in such subjects as political science, art history and philosophy are conducted by Stanford professors in English, admission to Landgut Burg is not restricted to language majors and the few other students able to speak German-usually a limitation of the year-abroad programs run by other U.S. institutions...