Word: argus
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EVER so often a news story has such extensive ramifications that it spills over into several TIME departments. Project Argus, in which man for the first time spun a web of electrons around the whole world, was such a story and demonstrated that TIME'S editorial technique can as easily dissect an unwieldy mass of detail into manageable pieces as it can assemble scattered facts into a terse whole...
...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...history of how one of the nation's most responsible journalists learned of Project Argus, kept the story under wraps for six months out of a sense of personal responsibility, and why and how he finally decided to break it. see PRESS, The Times & the Secret...
...deciding to maintain secrecy about Argus, the government also was forced to suspend release of information relayed by the satellite. The debate which has been takeing place on releasing data indicates that the U.S. had serious intentions not to fulfill its IGY obligations...
...handling of the entire Argus project seems incredibly inept. From the aspersions it cast on our sincerity in participation in IGY to the questions it raises about our competence in handling any kind of international publicity, the policy adopted has provided a testimony of doubtful wisdom. When it is realized that the government was prepared to conceal the whole affair indefinitely, despite apparent Soviet knowledge of the entire theory involved, one can only wonder what secrecy in space and atomic energy really means...