Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik, Russia's missile boasts and another Middle East crisis, still so cocksure about his balance? Last week TIME'S correspondents again plumbed the mood of the nation, found that the normalcy of March had given way to a new sense of urgency. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rocket's Red Glare...
Against the dark background of the Soviet satellite, Russia's diplomatic rocket-rattling and fear of weakness in the free world's leadership, President Dwight Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met last week in Washington. They took an idea, which at first was little more than a hope. In their hours of sober consultation they shaped it, giving it life. The idea was simply that man's future lay not only in answering Soviet missiles with more missiles, but in the pooling of every moral and material resource that 50 free nations could bring to bear...
...White House, the Pentagon and the remote missile-and rocket-testing areas from Florida to Eniwetok there was a new sense of urgency last week. Across the U.S. most of the post-Sputnik criticism and political backbiting gave way to the closest thing to an identity with national purpose that the U.S. has known since Korea...
...Federal Reserve had clamped on the economy. And at long last, the President was prevailed upon to break the news blackout that he himself had imposed on the state and progress of American missilery. With that done, the new urgency was written in the skies in the rocket's red glare. It was a week that made missile history, and a week that pointed up the successful investment of vast sums of money (see chart) in the missile program since Ike came into office. Items...
...balloon-launched Air Force rocket, fired over Eniwetok as part of a research program called Project Far Side, burst into outer space, beyond the 580 miles of the Soviet satellite, beyond the 625-mile record set by the Army Jupiter, with preliminary instrument studies indicating the rocket may have soared 4,000 miles (distance from earth to moon: 238,857 miles...