Tuesday, July 30, 1963 Summer Session Kansan
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Space Chief Wants Plan Of Victory
By Douglas Diltz
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — The new chief of the U.S. program to land astronauts on the moon before 1970 says he does not like to think of the task as being a "race with the Russians."
"I don't think our main motive should be trying to get to the moon first," said Dr. George E. Mueller, who will head what is perhaps the most ambitious research and engineering enterprise ever undertaken by man.
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"I think we must have an ordered, sound and well conceived program," said the bespectacled 45-year-old space executive who has had 23 years experience in missile guidance, deep space communications, microwave research and space payload design. "We must think primarily of doing the best job we can."
"NATURALLY, I think the United States should be pre-eminent in space, and I think we can. But I don't regard getting to the moon as a race.
Mueller, a quiet and exacting man, was named a week ago to succeed D. Brainerd Holmes as chief of the U.S. Apollo program. He will take over the $21,000-a-year post Sept. 1.
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"I believe we should concern ourselves chiefly with the job we are doing. The real purpose is the accomplishment itself."
Mueller, vice-president for research and development at Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, acknowledged that "of course we must always keep an eye on what the Russians are doing."
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BUT HE ADDED:
His duties include spending $10 million-a-day economically for the next eight years, and overseeing 30,000 persons in 280 plants across the nation.
AROUND THE SPACE technology laboratories he is known as "cool and calculating" by his associates who say he "uses up a lot of shoe leather."
"And he has instant understanding. Mueller can merely look at a problem and get a grasp of what's involved. He has striking powers of appraisal."
"He is the shoe leather type," said an associate. "He constantly walks from laboratory to laboratory, keeping abreast with what's on going.
MUELLER IS an expert in the defense Department's Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Thor missile programs and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Pioneer and Explorer space projects.
He is married to Maude Mueller and they have two daughters — Karen, 19, an exchange student in Germany, and Jean Elizabeth, 16, a high school senior.
The new Apollo project director studied electrical engineering and physics at Purdue, Ohio State and Princeton universities. He foresees no technological problems to landing a team of American astronauts on the moon by the end of this decade and bringing them back alive.
"I consider getting to the moon extremely important," Mueller said. "But let's be realistic. It's only one step in exploring space. I'm not interested in just a single victory. I think we should look to the overall conquest of space."
Doctor Says Sufferers of Imaginary Ills Need Therapy to Solve Their Problems
NEY YORK — (UPI) — Dr. Robert Kemp proposes that the person who is forever feeling ill but actually isn't should be medically labeled a "thick-file case."
The present label is "neurotic personality." Another sometimes applied label is "hypochondriac." These persons number in legions, as any doctor in any country will testify.
DR. KEMP proposes further that physicians shouldn't waste scientific medicine on them. Rather they should be treated with non-scientific "common sense" of a kind a layman might apply.
He called upon physicians to be factual, and the first fact about these persons is they accumulate thick files after years of regular visits to a doctor with symptoms which have no real organic basis.
In Kemp's view, these persons are almost exclusively women of middle age with husbands, children and other relatives. In "thick file" men- and numerically they're fewer-there usually is only one symptom, such as a pain in the stomach.
BUT THE "thick file" woman has symptoms of all kinds. On one visit to the doctor's office, they center around headaches. On the next visit insomnia will be at the core. Then again the physician can jump, mistakenly, to the conclusion of rheumatic disease or high blood pressure.
Dr. Kemp advocated a thorough investigation of all complaints, to find out if perhaps there is an organic basis. When no such basis is found, "reassurance of the patient can then be firm," but the helpful doctor shouldn't stop with merely saving, there is nothing wrong.
He has to "formulate some theory as to why they have abandoned the normality of health."
HIS OWN "theory" is this: "These patients appear to have found, as we all must do, that life doesn't measure up to what we thought it would be. That marriage, a home, a family and security do not always add up to constant and complete happiness.
"These may not give the amount of sympathy demanded by the patient, and this can only be obtained through ill health. On this theme, of
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From this "theory" the doctor can then "point out the results of her illness to herself, her work and her family.
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