Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge of Nikita Khrushchev's Sputnik III, a cone-shaped monster weighing almost 1½ tons and launched by a rocket obviously bigger than any in the U.S. arsenal, brought no sense of panic or dismay. Instead, it was accepted as another stern warning that the U.S. must push hard on its own missile program, turn at least one deaf ear to propaganda talk of easy disarmament...
...original Spanish settlers and the "Anglos," the newcomers from other states, was once so sharp that Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez was certain to be re-elected on his Spanish name alone. But since World War II, the huge inpouring of outsiders to man atomic-energy laboratories, air bases, rocket test stations and other defense installations and industries has greatly watered down the Spanish influence -so much so that six years ago fiery Major General Patrick Hurley, an Anglo, and a Republican to boot, missed defeating Chavez by only 5,000 votes...
...might well have been condensed into the scholarship story that had too many pictures anyhow. The "Jazz" article never gets with it, either in terms of music, style, or personalities. The "Harvard Science" feature begins like a melodramatic parody of Time magazine--"It was the year of the rocket. . . . It was the year of the sputnik. . ." The science item is rather confusing and its most distinctive trait is a number of large pictures of dull grey buildings...
Away out there beyond the aurora and behind the moon, spins something referred to as the universe. Although Ursa Major and Mars are a long way from earth, a rocket will probably reach the moon some time this year. The moon and what spins beyond it would be reached considerably sooner if this nation's attempts to conquer space were better organized and better financed...
...that the Agency will be headed by three, or at most five directors who will devote all their time to and receive all their money from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. It is also to be hoped that Congress will give the new agency priority on all rocket and space projects, regardless of the desires of the Defense Department. If Congress will ignore the lobbies and show some imagination, space will neither be the property of the Defense Department nor of a General Space Company dominated by private interests...