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...responsibility for the space-engine program, which lags two to five years behind the Soviet Union's. Von Braun & Co. will have responsibility for developing the interim Saturn program and possibly NASA's longer-range F-1 Rocketdyne single-chamber engine of 1,500,000 Ibs. thrust, and beyond that, the giant Nova with 6,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. The U.S., said Ike at his Augusta press conference, would spend on the civilian space effort next year "something more" than the current $500 million a year...
...division of responsibility has lost months for Von Braun's Saturn program, the U.S.'s best chance to match the big Soviet moon rockets in the mid-1960s. Von Braun proposed Saturn, with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik I revealed the U.S.S.R.'s enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director...
Integrity & Unity. Less than two weeks after President Truman accepted Marshall's retirement from the U.S. Army after 50 years of service, duty again was thrust on him. Truman appointed him his special envoy with ambassador's rank, sent him to China with orders to try to bring a peace between China's Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would...
...many Indians, the sight of Communists floundering is a source of malicious merriment. Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
...might also be used against enemy satellites or spaceships. ¶Next day an Army solid-fuel Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile streaked across the skies above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Among the nation's warbirds, it is the most powerful (up to 500,000 lbs. thrust v. 400,000 Ibs. for the Atlas) and the fastest (more than 17,000 m.p.h.). At those speeds the Zeus encounters enormous heat and stress, and it broke up on its maiden flight in August. Last week's Zeus fell a bit short of its planned 100-mile course...