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...three-stage Vanguard missile that feeped yesterday morning sat on the test stand for a while playing dragon and then sort of rolled over and died. The brief blast of the Navy's missile was followed by long and uphappy statements from most of this nation's leaders. Reaction abroad was an interesting contrast as our allies wore amused smiles, obviously enjoying the sight of the vaunted American technology explode so indecorously...
Unfortuntely for the future and present safety of this nation, neither amusement nor ranting about the Vanguard project will remove the serious flaws of our missles program. The need is not for recriminations about the timing and publicity of the Vanguard project, but for a series of drastic changes in this nation's system of missile research, production, and control...
Considering the inefficiency of the present organization for missiles development, failures of the Vanguard type and dangerous laggings in ICBM development can only be expected. The present hydra-headed system produces innumerable delays in production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard...
GAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 6--The Vanguard test rocket--with U.S. hopes for some recaptured prestige aboard--barely struggled off the ground today, then fell back and exploded...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Another effort to launch the Vanguard rocket will be made today and the deputy director of the project said last night there is "a good chance" that it will boost the American "moon" into orbit around the world. The time of launching was not announced as of last night...