Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat of nuclear rocket retaliation. Moreover, it thrust on U.S. diplomats the urgent need to clarify U.S. aims and goals in the Middle East, where time was fast running...
...Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the close of the U.N. debate...
Light Molecules. The simplest kind of atomic engine uses a nuclear reactor to heat a gaseous propellant and shoot it out of a nozzle. Its chief advantage over chemical rocket engines: its propellant can be liquid hydrogen, whose molecules are light and therefore move faster at a given temperature. The best possible chemical combination (hydrogen and ozone), burning at 5,000° F. and 500 lbs.-per-sq.-in. chamber pressure, gives an exhaust velocity of 13,000 ft. per sec. A nuclear rocket, using hydrogen at the same pressure and only 3,000° F., shoots...
...Doctor an Hour? But before anybody can boost research to rocket speeds, the committee pointed out, the U.S. must more than double the number of people engaged in it-from 20,000 to 45,000. And this means not only more technicians but more physicians, whose training is long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted...
After a ho-hum year on an alien job-inspecting tropical construction work-Colonel John Nickerson, court-martialed for leaking Army rocket secrets to newsmen (TIME, July 8, 1957) heard the good news: restoration of his military command functions, assignment to a post right down his alley, as ordnance officer of the Caribbean Command with headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone...