Word: apollos
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Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote came up with the most violent accusation. Calling the whites "snakes in our pot," he angrily quoted to Parliament some verses from a song he claimed was sung at the party...
...Married. Apollo Milton Obote, 38, Prime Minister of one-year-old Uganda; and Miria Kalule, 27, former secretary to the Ugandan U.N. delegation; in an Anglican ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Uganda in Kampala's Namirembe Cathedral, followed by a reception for 10,000 at Lugogo Stadium...
These difficulties, plus a desire to reduce tensions of the cold war, prompted Kennedy to make the surprise announcement, in his United Nations address, that the U.S. was ready to make Project Apollo a joint East-West effort. Yuri Gagarin, also speaking at the U.N., has since expressed his government's willingness to join in a co-operative venture. To thwart this move the House has passed an amendment to the space appropriations bill forbidding all space expenditures should the moon program pass out of strict U.S. control. Fortunately this measure, which took the Administration by surprise, is not likely...
...whether or not the U.S. and the USSR send a man to the moon together, the Kennedy administration must face up to the engineering and economic realities of Project Apollo: No American will reach the moon in 1969. Even if an American does reach the earth's satellite by 1971 or '72 the cost will surely be over $20 billion and the waste will have been enormous. Under the present arrangement Project Apollo is being run as Project Manhattan was during World War II. Waste is inevitable because the government does not have time to do things the right...
...remarks could mark the start of a period for rational and unimpassioned appraisal of the space program. If the President and NASA foster such an atmosphere they will be able to get both Congress and the public to accept a realistic moon program. Neither the economy nor Project Apollo can afford the present pace...