Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...source of special thrill to me was TIME'S account of Dr. Teller's denunciation of the inadequacy of our present educational system, especially the high schools, and the letters to the editor protesting against the crazy trends in present U.S. car design...
...learn have brought him into contact with experts in every field of governmental activity. One recent week, surveying the scope of U.S. missile programs and potentialities. Nixon talked to Air Force Missile Chief Bernard Schriever, Army Rockets Boss John Medaris, Army Scientist Wernher Von Braun, Physicist Edward Teller and Presidential Science Adviser Killian. That same week he surprised Dr. James G. Miller, head of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia in the field). All the time he was acquiring...
...Johnson subcommittee got a dour estimate of U.S. strength from its first witness. In four hours of testimony, shaggy-browed, often emotional Dr. Edward Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) ran off a grim morning line on U.S. chances in the race for survival. The University of California physicist estimated that Russia is closing the gap in nuclear weapons, is about equal to the U.S. in aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder...
...Behind Teller came a top-name team of experts on science and military matters to criticize and suggest. Dr. Vannevar Bush, able wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services...
...Priority. Moving from past and present to the potentials of the future, Teller predicted that the Russians "within the next decade or two" may be able to manage even the weather. Said he: "Please imagine a world in which the Russians can control weather in a big scale, where they can change the rainfall over Russia, and that might very well influence the rainfall in our country in an adverse manner . . . What kind of a world will it be where they have this new kind of control...