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...Saturn booster was tested last week; the upper two stages of the rocket were dummies filled with water for ballast. Saturn is scheduled to make its first operational flight in 1964, will have enough power to orbit a ten-ton satellite around the earth or dump a four-ton load of instruments on the moon. By 1966, an advanced model Saturn, boosted by two 1,500,000-lb. North American F-1 engines, is programed to put a three-man spacecraft called Apollo into orbit around the moon. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes to start landing instruments...
...Communism depends heavily on the continued vigor of the nation's economy. Last week, in preparing the national budget-one of the biggest single factors in shaping the economy-President Kennedy made it clear that the Administration is concerned about the state of the economy and the heavy load it must bear to keep the U.S. in fighting trim. For the New Frontier, Kennedy decreed a new fiscal policy: frugality...
Imperfect Science. The foster home program has its own problems. In general, social workers are overworked and chronically underpaid. In Long Beach, Calif., the case load (one visit per month to the foster home) is 65 per social worker; in Miami it is 40. In some instances, foster parents turn out to be no better than some parents for whom they substitute. Only two months ago the Los Angeles foster parents of a five-year-old girl "punished" her by tying her to the bathroom shower fixtures with a length of TV antenna wire; she was dead of strangulation...
...worked as a wartime plane engineer for Douglas Aircraft Co., and there he came to the conclusion that the U.S. was misapplying the basic resources of time and brainpower. "The military men," Jones recalls, "wanted the highest possible performance -more speed, more altitude, more pay-load-and the manufacturer thought that delivering anything short of that was unpatriotic. This not only made for sizable technical risks, but it stretched out the lead time to three years. For slightly less speed and slightly less range, we could have cut it down to one year. And what would have been the result...
...third quarter, halfback Chuck Reed, who had broken up Columbia's initial series of the game by intercepting a Vasell pass in the end zone, moved the ball 35 yards from the Harvard 30 to the Columbia 35 on the first play. Taylor and fullback Grana carried the load for the rest of the way until Taylor pushed the ball over from the one yard line at 9:14. The 70-yard drive was covered in 12 plays...