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WASHINGTON, March 13--The House today voted its biggest percentage cut so far in the 1958 budget--and the executive office of the President was its target...
...satellite. But the missiles, nevertheless, are excellent instruments of approach. Their rocket motors, thin-skinned tanks, delicate guidance systems, etc. can also be used for hitting the moon with a charge of flash powder. This is considered less difficult than boosting a heavy thermonuclear warhead-to a city-sized target 5,000 miles away, and some Air Force groups think that it would be worth doing as a demonstration of U.S. spacemanship. It is probable, however, that space flight will develop through halfway points other than moon shooting for propaganda...
...capability." The ICBM re-entry test vehicle, the Lockheed X17, has made a number of successful flights at critical speeds (which other sources place as high as 26 times the speed of sound). Moreover, "the same guidance system that enables the warhead of a ballistic missile to reach its target . . . would also be sufficiently accurate to hit a target much smaller than the size of the moon, even at that increased range ... I would be willing to venture a guess that 90% of the unmanned follow-on [i.e., interplanetary] projects that one could visualize for the future can be undertaken...
...well the fine line between possible and impossible. Once, while his flagship Yorktown was in the Philippines area, Radford got-orders to send his F4-U Corsairs on a 1,200-mile round-trip attack on Japan. The fighters, he calculated rapidly, would have only five minutes over the target and would not have enough fuel to return if they tangled with the enemy. He signaled his dissent with a famous line: "Negative-no safety factor," and the task force order was canceled...
Morris L. Ernst, author and lawyer who defended James Joyce's "Ulysses" against the charge of obscenity and won, stated his argument more forcefully. "Men have always been frightened with ideas.... Their latest target is obscenity.... I don't happen to frighten easily," he said...