Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whatever the reason for the secrecy, the inability to discover Discoverer I shows that the armed forces learned the lesson of Vanguard I fiasco not wisely but too well. Having been cautioned, after that widely publicized failure, that it should not have trumpeted so loudly before the firings, the Air Force veiled its two subsequent firings (the Atlas launched in December and the current Discoverer) in secrecy until their success was announced...
...reason for this improvement is Larry Downs, a burly, 6 ft., 5 in. senior forward who recovered from a broken hand in time to lead Yale's basketball renaissance. In his initial start on Jan. 31, Downs scored 26 points and pulled down 20 rebounds to head the Elis' 78-65 win over the Crimson in New Haven...
...Center's main objects will be to encourage young persons in the field. A major reason for the joint nature of the Center is that the amount of talent currently available in the field is not sufficient to support two such centers, according to Dean Bundy...
...year-old boy in Normal, Ill., had disappeared, and divers were brought in from Chicago to plumb an ice-covered gravel pit that the child usually crossed on the way home from school. But the Bloomington Pantagraph (circ. 39,384) last week steadfastly played the story on page 3. Reason: it was local news (Bloomington and Normal are twin cities), and the Pantagraph never uses local stories on the front page...
...reason for this shining success after so many failures is buried in Washington's jungle of bureaucracy. The firing was postponed from December to February on orders of Dr. Keith Glennan, head of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which took the program over from the Navy. Every detail of the launching vehicle was examined critically, but whether major changes were made is not clear. There were few changes of personnel. Long-suffering Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard program from its beginning, remained in charge. When he reported to the House space committee...