Word: vanguard
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...triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses; and no sooner does a contractor develop a new weapon than a new motel (e.g., Polaris, Vanguard) of the same name springs up in the scrub...
...work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived; a panel of scientists sailed into the picture to recommend that the U.S. satellite become a project for the International Geophysical Year, and decided to put their money on the beautifully designed but totally untried Navy Vanguard. Argued Wernher von Braun: "This is not a design contest. It is a contest to get a satellite into orbit, and we're way ahead on this." He was overruled. In the astonishing 1955 decision to divorce satellite development from weaponry, the Vanguard was accepted as having more "dignity...
...Development, and Major General John Medaris, the able military commander at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, saw in a successful moon, and its proof of rocket superiority, a way for the Army to break out of its post-Korea roles-and-missions bog-down. But the orders giving Vanguard its exclusive franchise on space were clear and firm, and the Army could not risk defying them...
...Donald N. (for Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who established the uniquely personal working relationship with Cape Canaveral newsmen which last week averted the ballyhoo and garbledy-gook that witlessly inflated the first Vanguard flop into a propaganda debacle for the U.S. As it turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph-after the event -not only vindicated General Yates's patient diplomacy, but mollified news editors, who had become increasingly restive under...
...terms and committed their papers, agencies or magazines to them. Many correspondents had ingrained misgivings about the experiment, if only because it might hobble their reporting. Nevertheless, Yates's code worked without a hitch until Jan. 22, when International News Service Correspondent Darrell Garwood reported that a Vanguard would be ready for firing between Jan. 23 and 25. Under pressure from New York headquarters, the United Press's Charles Taylor followed up with a story saying that a missile firing-"possibly a second Vanguard" -was imminent...