April 15, 1963

April 15, 1963

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PICTURE CREDITS

EDITORIAL

The Brittle Brilliance

By Robert Hotz

MANAGEMENT

WHO'S WHERE

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PICTURE CREDITS

Cover-W. W. Hubbs, Sikorsky Aircraft; 33-Aerojet-General; 34-Sud Aviation; 40, 41-Douglas; 45-United; 49-Pratt & Whitney; 55-General Dynamics/Astronautics; 56, 57-NASA; 73-Saab; 77-Lockheed; 71Hunting Aircraft, Ltd.; 79-BoeinglVertol; 81-de Havilland; 85, 87, 95, 89-Sikorsky Div., United Aircraft Corp.; 99-Boeing; 105, 107, 109, 111-Sperry Gyroscope; 116, 117-Wren; 116 (bot. right), 117 (bot.), 121-Erwin J. Bulban.
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EDITORIAL

The Brittle Brilliance

It is sad for anybody who watched President John F. Kennedy inaugurated that frosty January day in 1961, with the words of his address glittering with the same brilliance as the bright winter sun reflecting from the snowbanks on Capitol Hill, to measure the low estate to which this Administration has fallen as it passed midcourse and headed down the homestretch toward the 1964 accounting with the electorate.

By Robert Hotz

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MANAGEMENT

WHO'S WHERE

In the Front Office
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MANAGEMENT

INDUSTRY OBSERVER

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Wiesner, Charyk Ordered Starad Secrecy

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XB-70A Rollout

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Defense Wants Comsat System With 24 to 30 Satellites by 1965

Washington—Defense Dept. will start work in May or June on a military communication satellite program based on a goal of putting 24 to 30 operational spacecraft into 6,000-mi. circular polar orbits by the end of 1965. John H. Rubel, deputy director of defense research and engineering, last week told the House space subcommittee on applications and tracking that the program schedule calls for: • Program definition study beginning in May or June on which “firm decision to proceed” will depend; and a followon study in August and September.

By Alfred P. Alibrando

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Performance Edge Stressed in TFX Quiz

By George C. Wilson

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TFX Semantics

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

McClellan Says Pentagon Civilians Abused Powers

Washington—Chairman John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.) of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has charged that civilian Defense Dept, secretaries abused the powers of office by not consulting the top military officers they reversed in awarding the $6.5-billion F-lll (TFX) contract to General Dynamics-Grumman rather than Boeing.
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