Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
...began like a trip to a church picnic. Crammed into the Land-Rover bouncing over South Viet Nam's heavily traveled Route 20 were American Missionary Elwood Jacobsen, 35, and Filipino Missionary Caspar Makil, 36, with their wives and five children. After months of ministering to primitive Vietnamese natives, the two missionaries and their families were headed for the Makil home near the mountain resort of Dalat...
...after seven years of work and an outlay of $257 million, Rover is in trouble. Given a go-ahead in 1955, Project Rover was to have ground-tested a nuclear rocket engine by 1960; that date has been set back to 1964. The first flight was scheduled for 1965; it is now planned for 1967. It will be at least 1969 before the rocket will be hauling payloads through space...
Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
...years, Rover was shunted aside in favor of crash programs to develop conventional rockets in a hurry. More recently, the project has been getting additional cash. In fiscal 1961, Rover got some $42 million; last year the figure was $89 million, and this year it is running at some $200 million. Put to Kennedy at his news conference was the question of whether his trip had persuaded him to seek even more money to speed up Rover. His answer: "We are going to let these tests go on of the reactor. These tests should be completed by July. If they...