Mar 23 1963
From The Space Library
In address dedicating O'Hare International Airport, in Chicago, President Kennedy said that the U.S. "intends to be a leader in the supersonic age." Foreseeing a smaller world when the mach three airliners are developed, the President said: "Let us also see to it that it is a better world. A more just and peaceful world for our children and for their children after them." In downtown civic address, President Kennedy spoke about automation in his remarks on labor and unemployment: ". . . underlying all of these trends is a third phenomenon, both cursed and praised; and that is technological advance, known loosely by the name of `automation.' During the last. six years, this Nation increased its manufacturing output by nearly 20 percent but it did so with 800,000 fewer production workers; and the gain in white collar jobs did not offset this loss. Since the second world war, the real output of the private economy has risen 67 per cent, with only a 3 per cent raise in man-hours . . . . Increasing productivity and advancing technology are essential to our ability to compete and to progress-but we also have an obligation to create an additional 2 million jobs each year for those displaced by these gains. . " (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 3/23/63, 1, A5)
NASA and Public Health Service announced award of contract to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for study in area of computer technology as related to biomedical sciences. Under the contract, MIT established .a Center Development Office to (1) coordinate planning activities for a Regional Resource Center and (2) evaluate the potential of specially designed computer for health-related sciences. (HEW Release W93)
USAF announced Atlas ICBM launched from Vandenberg AFB exploded shortly after liftoff. Cause of explosion was not determined. (DOD Release 414-63)
More than 400 German scientists and technicians were reported to be working for Egyptian government on first Egyptian-made rocket and nuclear warhead. First group of German atomic scientists arrived in Egypt in 1954, Israeli sources said. (London Sunday Times, in Wash. Post, 3/24/63, A17; London Observer News Service, in Wash. Post, 3/24/63, A17)
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