Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag to the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Patrols of Army public-relations officers prowled Pentagon corridors, passing out word that, given the chance, the Army could develop a rocket motor to put a 15-ton satellite into space with a man aboard. The Air Force stood that sort of talk as long as it could, then leaked a story about using its Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile to put up a 1,000-lb. satellite as early as June. The Army promptly upped the ante to 1,500 Ibs.-and the Pentagon's interservice storm signals were flapping furiously...
...first time, Wernher von Braun's reach for the stars was accepted as more science than science fiction. In the summer of 1954 Von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the services and industry gathered in the Washington office of Lieut. Commander George Hoover, U.S.N., to talk about launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived...
...teaching-as chaplain and head of the department of religion at Columbia University. Out of his typewriter began to stream a series of religious books (eight so far), including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral in the world...
...Cantankerous Outfielder Ted Williams needed just one hour of contract talk before signing up for his 20th season with the Boston Red Sox, and for good reason. His probable salary: $135,000, the highest in baseball history. At 39, said Williams, "I don't feel any different from ten years ago. I'll play as long...
...policy holds up, it may affect as many as 9,500 students-the i% of the school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets" to do even more damage...