Word: supersecretive
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...assumption that increase in knowledge will enable society to better manage its affairs is not borne out by history. Gallup praises individualism but concludes that supersecret group thinking, such as the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb, is the intellectual wave of the future. As for the roseate vision that mental muscle building will enable man to "solve any problem that comes within his purview," even Gallup occasionally sobers up. "After a time," he concedes, "human beings run out of ideas...
...Government people wanted to discuss a secret airplane project, so secret that not even General Curtis LeMay, then boss of the Strategic Air Command, knew about it. That night, Kelly Johnson, head of the "Skunk Works"-Lockheed's supersecret project-development division-began clearing out a hangar. "I got 23 fellows," says Johnson, "and we went to work. We didn't even give it a project name; that's a better kind of security. Later, the fellows began calling it 'the Angel...
...Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. They were assigned choice pensioni close to the Vatican (at Vatican expense) and the best seats in St. Peter's at all sessions, including secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell over,'' said an American monsignor. Replied Anglican Canon Bernard C. Pawley matter-of-factly: "If we didn't have the Schemata, how could...
...target rockets with Sidewinder missiles, laughed as an ancient C-47, all souped up with JATO rockets, shot into the sky like a jet. He inspected a line of 33 different aircraft, from the X-15 to the B-52, ducked inside a security hangar for a look at supersecret weapons...
...commission was even torn by doubts over whether atomic-weapons development should continue at all. In April and May of 1948 it conducted a supersecret Operation Sandstone at Eniwetok in which 9,800 men of Joint Task Force 7 fired three explosions from atop 200-ft. towers - the biggest U.S. blasts up to that time (unofficial estimate: 120 kilotons). Ogle manned Sandstone instruments as part of the Los Alamos team...