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...opposed federal aid to education, e.g., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. Among this session's most emphatic backers of federal aid legislation have been Marion Folsom, outgoing Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Missileman Wernher von Braun; and the National Education Association (which, predictably, wants a vastly larger program than any that stands a chance of passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dead Calm for Federal Aid | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Missileman Wernher von Broun, 46, who next year undergoes the accolade normally bestowed on wealthy songwriters, dead Presidents and western gun toters-a movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...already relegated to the category of "accomplished," Army and Air Force are racing to be first to try the next logical step into space: a shot at the moon. By later summer the Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES: Outward Bound | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Space Salesmen | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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