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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gloomy words from Rocketeer Dr. Wernher von Braun, 55, darkened the tenth-anniversary celebration of the first U.S. satellite, the 31-lb. Explorer 1. Budget cuts, warned Von Braun at a National Press Club luncheon, were "dismantling the high competence" of the U.S. space effort and supplying funds "too low to maintain progress and momentum." All the same, noted Dr. William H. Pickering, 57, head of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it has been a zingy decade-notably in the space race with Russia. Pickering's box score: 500 satellites, 13 successful moon missions, 2,000 hours...
...with the hope of obtaining federal grants to cover as much as one-third of their estimated cost. Particularly vulnerable to Johnson's budget reductions are the new library planned by the Graduate School of Education, two buildings at the Law School designed to provide more classroom and office space, and a Chemistry-Biology building to be built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with funds raised during the Program for Harvard College...
Thus, in a single test, NASA was able to prove that both LM engines work well, that the descent engine can be throttled in space-the first big operational engine to do so-and that the Apollo mission could be safely aborted, if necessary, during the final descent to the lunar surface. The near-perfect results may enable NASA to cancel plans for a second unmanned LM flight and to move directly into a manned orbital flight-to check out LM's life-support systems-late in 1968. Looking further ahead, LM's success has also raised hopes...
...Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend, an accountant rather than an operating man, has introduced just about the tightest cost controls in the auto industry-even while approving major new spending for additional facilities. In the past three years alone, Chrysler has appropriated $798 million for new plant and equipment. Space has been increased by 14 million sq. ft., or 30%, and Chrysler is making more and more of its own parts, instead of depending on outside suppliers...
...humor that Disney might have admired. Their short subjects (four minutes maximum) range from settings of favorite nursery rhymes to imaginative moralistic fables like The Amazing Colossal Man, written and produced by a dozen workshoppers. In this no-nonsense parable, suspicious earthlings annihilate a peace envoy from outer space...