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Balanced Panels. Much of Jim Killian's influence derives from the need that the President and the nation had for such a man when he went to Washington last fall. The Communists had put up Sputnik I, and the editorialists were crying for a "Science Czar." Dr. Killian got the headlines, if not the specific job. He added to his influence at once with a shot of his old M.I.T. organizational energy. He expanded membership of the President's Science Advisory Committee from twelve to 17, recruited scores of scientists coast to coast...
...Dutch exhibit showed how a thrifty nation wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets as a great industrial power...
...divorce, National Newspaper Syndicate kept custody of Buck Rogers himself, who was created 29 years ago by Dille's father and taken over by Yager alone only in 1948. Dille will continue to peddle Buck's 25th century adventures to the post-Sputnik boom market of 154 U.S. dailies (TIME, Feb. 24). The new artist who will learn to live with President Dille's blue pencil: Murphy Anderson, longtime space-fiction cartoonist...
Gromyko wrapped up the deal by naming an eight-man delegation of Soviet scientists that ranged from Sputnik Authority Evgeny Federov through Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Nikolai Semenov to nonscientific Semyon K. Tsarapkin, one of Gromyko's oldtime U.N. scowlers. They will meet with the British and French delegates and the U.S. trio, composed of University of California Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, Bell Telephone Laboratories' Executive Vice President James Fisk and Caltech Physicist Robert Bacher...
...Pentagon) that the Air Force will fly three lunar probes this year, in August, September and October. A lunar probe means neither a landing nor a circumlunar trip with a manned spaceship, both enormously difficult, but an impact on the moon or passage around it by an unmanned Sputnik-like vehicle. A one-way trip ending in impact is probably the easiest, but many scientists oppose it as a childish stunt that may prove serious scientific vandalism...