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...Fistful of Dust. Foremost among the doubters is a longtime moon-race skeptic, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Says Ike: "Anybody who would spend $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts." California's Democratic Representative Chet Holifield has grumbled about "moon madness." The Senate Republican Policy Committee expressed doubts about the value of "a fistful of lunar dust...
Travelin' (Chet Atkins; RCA-Victor) is the work of country music's best guitar player, running through a wide and varied repertory that should be greeted as a valuable primer by Atkins-style pickers, as his many imitators call themselves. No one could play The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise better than Atkins does here, but he does seem a bit awkward with La Dolce Vita and other tunes of that...
...Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Afghanistan, caught between U.S. and Soviet policy...
...Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A look at Chrysler's gas-turbine-engine automobile...
There is still resistance in the U.S. to the $20 billion price tag put on the nation's space program by the Kennedy Administration. California's Democratic Representative Chet Holifield diagnosed the expenditure as national "moon madness." Such criticism will, of course, continue, even though the costly adventure will work to man's great gain. Yet after Gordon Cooper's flight last week, it appears all but impossible for anyone to stop the U.S.'s ever-longer leaps into space. Billions will be spent, and possibly billions will be wasted. But the performance...