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SPACE Lost & Unfound As a step toward the goal of sending a man into space with a high probability of getting him back alive, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) set out early this year on a new venture: the Discoverer Program, to send satellites into orbit and then try to recover the payload capsules after they had made several trips around the earth. The Discoverer Program's score up to last week: launchings, seven; satellites put into orbit, five; recovery attempts, four; recoveries, none...
Gross national product will pass a rate of $500 billion early in the year and probably hit $525 billion before 1960 ends. It should reach $700 billion by 1970, predicted Emerson P. Schmidt, research director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Harvard, MIT, and the Atomic Energy Commission planned the research center for a twofold purpose. First, they will use the apparatus to produce strange particles--short-lived and unstable packets of energy such as hyperons, anti-protons, and anti-neutrons...
When he is not helping to ease that struggle, through classroom lectures and speeches to undergraduate organizations, Professor Duroselle retreats to his Widener study, where he is currently doing research on American foreign policy from Wilson to Roosevelt. His book, to be published next Spring, will serve as the introduction to a ten-year study of Franco-American relations. As director of the center for study of international relations, a branch of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris, Duroselle is directing the research for this project...
Professor Handlin will write the final synthesis and supervise individual research. In addition, he will make recommendations for appointments and grants and conduct a seminar to examine the problems of the study from year to year...