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Assistant for Science and Technology. Over the next 18 months, able Administrator Killian created a strong liaison between the White House and scientists, kept the President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...market more easily, has done much better. Among the top performers in each fund category, the best record of all was turned in by Boston's Keystone 8-4 Fund, with assets of only $31 million. It recorded a 508% gain (see chart...
Another sign of the capital-goods buildup was machine-tool orders. Makers reported that new orders in April reached an estimated $50.6 million, nearly double the $28.3 million during the same month last year, and well ahead of shipments (see chart). Said James C. Hodge, executive vice president of Warner & Swasey Co., leading U.S. toolmaker, whose orders are up at a rate more than 100% higher than last year: "We expect new order increases to continue during this year and probably into...
...Thus, since 58% of all U.S. Catholics are Democrats (see chart), a Republican Catholic candidate might lure one out of every seven Democratic voters to his cause. Unsurprisingly, nearly all Catholics (95%) said they would vote for a candidate who shared their politics as well as their religion. The insignificant 2% who would not vote for a fellow Catholic of the same political persuasion were afraid of upsetting Protestant-Catholic relations...
...better individuals"). He had a hand in the Rockefeller brothers' special studies of national security problems and foreign economic policy, is the first chairman of the Republican Party's policy Committee on Program and Progress. Last week Percy opened the first working meeting of his committee to chart the G.O.P.'s future goals. He argues with force that businessmen should not worry, as many do, that participation in politics will hurt their business. Says he: "After six years of it, I have yet to get a single complaint from a buyer or stockholder." PERCY'S dedication...