Word: wiesner
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...explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner, who had advocated the discarded earth-orbit method, muttered, "No, that's no good." In full view of newsmen and visitors, including Britain's Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft, Wiesner hauled off in sharp attack of the present U.S. plan...
...reception for the Somali Republic's new Ambassador to the U.S., is also handling secret dispatches for the new U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan. Yale's college corps, the biggest of all, has 70 New Blues busy at everything from aiding Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner to perusing pornography for the Post Office. One Yaleman, Rhodes Scholar Lou Echols. 22, has even produced a solid report on how the Russians view the U.S. shelter program.*His pleased bosses call Echols' work "most useful, definite priority stuff...
...when statistics no longer surprise, President Kennedy's top scientific adviser found a way to dramatize the $12.3 billion that the U.S. Government is spending this fiscal year on research and development for defense and space. It is, Jerome Wiesner told a congressional subcommittee, more than the Government spent on research and development "in the entire interval from the American Revolution through and including World...
...inspection by an international commission to keep them honest. Another plan would do away with posts on Russian soil entirely, using only long-range detection instruments and on-site international inspections of suspicious blasts. This modification of the previous U.S. stand is reportedly favored by Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, who found some support for his position in the disclosure last week that the U.S. had clearly detected an underground nuclear test by France on May 1 in the Hoggar Mountains of the southeastern Sahara, more than 5,000 miles away...
Jerome B. Wiesner, Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Sc.D...