Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loved for His Enemies. Noting the rising attack on Dulles, his friends, often less articulate than his enemies, have begun to rally. Turkey, threatened only last fall by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, is all the way for Dulles. In Bonn, a West German Cabinet minister, while urging more energetic U.S. leadership, added thanks for America's Dulles: "We would rather have a purposeful man than a gambler. The stakes are too great. Dulles is a sober man. He would never go to Munich, as Chamberlain...
...small share of defense contracts, there seemed to be no conflict of interests). Before taking over, McElroy characteristically set out on his tour of military establishments. On the evening of Oct. 4 he was at dinner at the Army's Huntsville, Ala. ballistic missile center when Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun was called from the table. Von Braun returned, face flushed, with the news that Sputnik I was in outer space. Even then the Secretary-to-be sensed that the Defense job would never quite be the same again...
Moscow censors this week cleared a press association story reporting that the Soviet Union had launched an experimental rocket carrying a human passenger 186.42 miles into the upper atmosphere. The story said the rocketeer had parachuted successfully to earth. There was no official announcement by the Kremlin, immediately...
...Rinehart pointed out that putting a man to a height of 186 miles was much less a problem, in terms of the rocket power needed, than to launch a satellite of a man's weight...
...rocket with its man passenger only needed to reach the desired height, and fall back to earth by gravity...