Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy-moving Neil McElroy, 54, got off to a dazzling start as Defense Secretary. Taking over from "Engine Charlie" Wilson in October 1957, five days after the first Soviet Sputnik soared into orbit, he gave the Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress...
Ever since Astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered in 1928 that the great galaxies, thinly scattered through space, are fleeing from one another, scientists have tried to explain the expanding universe, or to explain it away. The most consistent theories postulate some strange, long-range force that operates only at enormous distances, pushing the galaxies apart in spite of the attraction of gravitation. But no one has measured this force or given a good reason why it should exist...
Meeting the press in Washington after her return from space, Monkey Able seemed chipper, jumping around and throwing things almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed that one of the electrodes inserted under her skin, a ¾-inch-square bit of silver-plated wire mesh, had started a slight infection. It was decided to operate, using a general anesthetic, trichloroethylene...
...work. Then it was explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space-monkey bench...
...case of 11 oz. Monkey Baker was simpler and happier. She hailed from the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. Her electrodes were successfully removed under local anesthesia by a Navy doctor. The Navy hopes to breed her in a year or so, and examine her offspring for genetic effects of space...