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Testifying next day, blunt-spoken Robert C. Sprague, Massachusetts electrical manufacturer, co-chairman of the 1957 Gaither Committee study of U.S. defenses (which the Administration refuses to make public-TIME, Dec. 2, 1957), declared that the U.S. must be awakened to the scope of the overall Russian threat. "There is only one man in the United States that can do this effectively, and that is the President," said Sprague, a Republican. "I believe, and this is a personal belief, that the danger is more serious than the President has expressed himself to the American public...
...that wondrously complicated envelope of safety, and the first responsibility for that safety rests in the hands of an organization that, for power and procedure, has no parallel in the U.S. It is the Federal Aviation Agency, and the man who rules it is a temperamental, mail-fisted, blunt-talking ex-fighter pilot named Elwood Ricardo Gonzalo Quesada...
...waiting newsmen, peppery, popular little Antoine Pinay gave his own blunt version of his ouster. Torn between awareness of the public confidence that Pinay inspires and impatience with Pinay's questioning of De Gaulle's loyalty to the Western alliance, De Gaulle had sought to keep Pinay in the Cabinet by offering him the job of minister in charge of "longterm national policy." Snorted Pinay: "They wanted me to supervise our future but keep hands off the present . . . In the end they heaped me with flowers and chucked...
...Cylinder. Thiokol's test stands are hardly more than nicks in the rocky hillsides. They need no elaborate structures or tubing because a solid-fuel booster is little more than a fat, blunt-nosed casing for the fuel it encloses. It lies on its side in a heavy steel cradle and pokes its enormous thrust against a vertical rock face sheathed with concrete. Instruments record vibrations, temperatures and the stress in its metal skin, but human watchers do not shelter in a blockhouse. They watch the tests from open hillsides. "Distance is cheaper," they say, "than concrete and periscopes...
Caviar & Cliaos. But U.S. policymakers saw little profit in trying to make a free-world bastion out of an isolated jungle nation whose government had so little popular support. The chaos left after Communist hit-and-run attacks amply bore out a U.N. report's blunt findings that massive aid to Laos ($225 million from the U.S. since 1955) " not so far achieved significant results." The Laotian army, on which 70% of the U.S. aid was spent, has shown itself an unimpressive fighting force; most of the rest of the U.S. money, instead of being used to finance rural...