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...Project Rover. This week, NASA will also launch a geodetic survey satellite whose blinking light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from $5,000,000 to $1,250,000. Today, with tests resumed, E.G. & G. is booming. Says Vice President Grier: "People like us are going to be in style a long, long time. The country...
Boos & Hisses. Washington doubted that Russian technology could thwart a retaliatory thrust by U.S. missiles, and quickly answered Khrushchev's other charges. Khrushchev's denunciation of U.S. nuclear tests, said the State Department, was sheer hypocrisy, considering the fact that Russia broke the test-ban moratorium last fall. Furthermore, the Western Big Three, added Secretary of State Dean Rusk for the 11th time, will not pull out of West Berlin...
Both U.S. and British statements about the new seismology were presumably timed to precede this week's renewal of disarmament discussions at Geneva. They may well mean that the West is prepared to consider a new test moratorium, confident that it can detect secret Soviet tests, perhaps without any instruments at all on Soviet territory...
SEPT. 1, 1961-Russia breaks moratorium, launches two-month, 50-explosion series up to 58 megatons...
...begins test moratorium. Russia follows three days later...