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...directed toward attaining military dominance in the near-earth space envelope." McNamara phoned Cannon for an appointment, slipped up to Capitol Hill for an hour and a half of serious discussion about the problem. Next day the question came up at President Kennedy's press conference. Kennedy was candid about the U.S.'s trailing Russia in the overall space race. "We started late-we're trying to overtake them. And I think by the end of the decade we will. But we're in for some further periods when we'll be behind. And anybody...
...Midwest. "What happens here," cried O'Brien, "will be the determining factor in November. The Midwest holds the key." And they acclaimed O'Brien's peroration: "I say let the blood flow. We have the cause and our cause is right." But in their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes aren't there. We made our score in 1958, when we had a lot of things going for us, like Ezra Taft Benson. The same climate...
Died. Eugene Holman, 67, a ruddy-faced geologist whose candid charm and matchless knack for developing new oilfields took him to the top of the world's biggest oil company, Standard...
Moscoso's candid memo amounted to official recognition of a disturbing fact. Seventeen months after President Kennedy's stirring speech announcing the Alianza para el Progrcso, and a year after it was solemnly formalized by 20 hemisphere nations at Punta del Este, the program is in trouble. Latin Americans complain that the promised aid flows slowly. U.S. planners are discouraged by the manana attitude of many Latin American governments on the reciprocal social and economic reforms needed to make the U.S. aid dollars effective. Everyone realizes that there has been too much talk about what the Alliance...
...League in 1957), sent Reporter Danielle Hunebelle there to spend three weeks in the home of Galesburg Car Dealer Norman H. Weaver and his wife and four children. Mystified by the Weavers' un-Gallic ways, Reporter Hunebelle let them do their own talking, stitched together a series of candid Weaver monologues that runs for eleven pages in the magazine. She got to like them, though their pious earnestness and indifference to food were trying. "Generally speaking," she said, "they have a lot to learn in the realm of the senses," and she was astonished to discover that the Bible...