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...good reason to value public interest in his work. In 1957, while an inquiry was under way into the rising costs of the giant construction at Jodrell Bank, the new radio telescope became the first in the Western world to successfully track and pick up signals from Sputnik 1-a convincing demonstration that it was probably worth the more than $2,000,000 price after all. Later work in tracking U.S. satellites brought Jodrell Bank funds from NASA...
...Asian Sputnik. "Communism in Asia," he told a union convention in Washington last week, "is not a subject of academic discussion. It is a matter of survival. Viet Nam today is as close to the U.S. as London was in 1940." At Georgetown University next day, he said: "Our problem today in Asia is that we are abysmally ignorant of that part of the world. Out of the tragedy of war comes an impetus and incentive for knowledge." On a flying trip to Manhattan, he alighted in the penthouse of the Carlyle Hotel and, pounding the arms of John...
Died. Norair Sisakyan, 59, biochemist and head of medical studies in the Soviet space program, who evaluated the pioneering tests performed on Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka during 1960's Sputnik V flight, urged that the biological aspects of manned space flights "be attacked with vigor," and since then had a major hand in every flight involving living creatures, from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to last month's launching of two dogs in still-orbiting Cosmos 110; of undisclosed causes; reportedly in Tyuratam, U.S.S.R...
...aerospace industry as a whole last year saw sales jump to a record $20.9 billion, with its backlog of orders hitting an $18.6 billion peak. This was the same industry that, after its post-Sputnik missile and satellite surge, felt its fortunes sag. As recently as 1964, the management consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet...
...missile splurge, plus the nation's effort to overtake the Soviet Sputnik in the peaceful exploration of space, demanded airborne equipment bulging with electronic innards. As a result, the traditional airframe industry broadened into today's aerospace industry, in which such non-planemakers as IBM, Bendix and General Electric play critical roles. Soon a new business climate emerged. At the top, the Pentagon made shrewd use of its monopsony-one customer but many suppliers-to foster competition. To meet the unsparing military demand for excellence, companies undertook research and development on a hitherto undreamed of scale; today engineers...