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...Research and Engineering, will have supervisory control over the $2.5 billion Defense Department scientific projects-but no scientific budget of his own. Enmeshed in the program are all the stubborn duplications, fears and rivalries of different services whose planners and dreamers demand a separate piece of the wild-blue-yonder projects. The Air Force, for example, got miffed at ARPA when ARPA's Johnny-come-lately Boss Roy Johnson took much of the credit for the successful launching of the orbiting Atlas (TIME, Dec. 29), which, after all, was an Air Force ICBM...
Unlike Maurice Maeterlinck, whose The Life of the Bee used the insects in part as a flight vehicle for his own soarings into the wild extramundane blue yonder, dedicated Beekeeper Crompton lets the bees buzz for themselves. He follows them, with cries of pride and lamentation, from their hexagonal cradles to their grave in the grass...
Such harassing fire, the restless reaction of a hair-trigger combat commander caught in the paper and politics of the peacetime Pentagon, tends to obscure the best of his book and the special brand of Army "wild blue yonder" that is the best of Jim Gavin. After a hard-eyed assessment of a U.S. Army that could be stopped by the "primitive" Red Chinese in Korea, he makes a passionate demand for the money and decisions to provide the West with an atom-armed and airmobile fighting force that can hold down Communist threats, big and little, by being ready...
...heavy work within seven to 60 days. The range was even wider after repair of a groin hernia in men over 50: from seven to 84 days for light work, 20 to 180 for heavy. By contrast, patients in the Air Force zoomed back into the wild blue yonder only 13 days (average) after appendectomy, 17 days after hernia repair. Naval recruits went back to the full rigors of boot training only nine to 32 days after hernia surgery. Pro football players (Philadelphia Eagles) have returned to gridiron mauling 30 days after appendectomy with no ill effects...
...fast-changing world of missilery, the Air Force last week got go-ahead orders on the wildest blue-yonder project in its history. Name of project: Minuteman. Nature of Minuteman: a whole new weapons system of 3,000 to 4,000 solid-fuel "second-generation" missiles of variable 500-mile to 5,500-mile range, each to be kept in a state of pushbutton readiness, warheaded, target-aimed, in concealed and dispersed underground launching slots...