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Moments before Apollo 11 's booster lifted off from Cape Kennedy last July, Spiro Agnew declared that the nation's next major space goal should be a manned landing on Mars by the end of the century. Critics immediately retorted that the Vice President's extraterrestrial ambitions were outrunning the nation's means. Last week the President's task group on post-Apollo space objectives -which Agnew happens to head-made its chairman sound uncharacteristically cautious. It said that the U.S. could send men to Mars in the mid-1980s for not much more than...
...Congress is willing to spend from $8 billion to $10 , billion a year on space by the end of the 1970s, the U.S. can reach the red planet as early...
Southern Cog. At week's end, Scott had at least 16 of the 22 votes he needed for victory. With a strong record in favor of civil rights, the Pennsylvanian attracted virtually all of the liberal faction-New York's Jacob Javits and Charles Goodell, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Charles Percy, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, and others. Yet Scott's record has not been so liberal as to make him completely unacceptable to conservatives. He passed the Administration's loyalty test, for example, by voting...
Should Scott and Baker deadlock, some Senators favored compromising on Delaware's John Williams, a 22-year veteran of the Senate. But Williams, who plans to retire at the end of 1970, refused last week even to consider the idea...
...tung's incapacitation or death would mark the end of China's most momentous era. Mao took a fragmented, warring nation, plunged it into the crucible of a Communist revolution, and for two decades thereafter used persuasion and terror to keep it from falling apart. He restructured the social order of the world's most populous nation and made China a power to be reckoned with. Within China, Mao's departure could result in a further loosening of Peking's central authority, already curtailed in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. It could also lead...