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...Genealogy. It was one of some 25,000 capsule biographies, taking up 1,100 pages, of the descendants of Gerrit Hendricksen (who later became known as Blauvelt), a Dutchman who helped settle New York in 1638. Yet it was to set off a great search-one that tried to distinguish between fact and fiction, between records and rumors. For in its deadpan way, the item plainly said that John Kennedy had been married secretly to someone before he wed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
When the excitement died down, Holmes taught BMEWS how to distinguish between the moon and missiles. But he could hardly know that this would not be his last tangle with that cold and distant target. Whatever obstacles he stumbles into, Brainerd Holmes is determined to hit the moon on schedule. The U.S. space program must proceed at top speed, he argues, even if the Russians (whose space spectaculars are the principal goad that moves Congress to the necessary generosity) should retire wholly from the space race. "When a great nation is faced with a technological challenge," says Scientist Holmes with...
...point anyway: nuclear blasts can be detected by instruments placed beyond each nation's borders. That argument gained force last month when the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency reported new seismic detection techniques (TIME, July 20), which make it a lot easier than expected to distinguish a nuclear blast from an earthquake. Last week President Kennedy called an all-star White House conference of 16 officials, including the Vice President, the Secretaries of State and Defense and 13 others, to consider changing the U.S. program. From his rocking chair, the President asked a set of skeptical questions...
...CHRISTMAS IN MANHATTAN: Fir trees covered in lights are ranged all along Park Avenue; the big stores have flesh and blood Santa Clauses at their en trances; and the counters are besieged by customers buying presents for one anoth er. You can't distinguish where shrewd commercial advertising ends and where emotional spirituality begins...
...bill has two additional provisions to distinguish it from King-Anderson. It provides for identical benefits for persons 65 and over who would not be eligible for social security coverage; these benefits would be financed out of the annual general revenues of the Federal Government. The new bill also, to soften conservative opposition, provides an option recommended by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller: a social security beneficiary would have a choice between accepting the Government benefits or having the Government contribute toward the premium on a private health insurance plan providing equal benefits-but only if the beneficiary...