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...facet of Lindbergh's life often overlooked is his role in rocketry. In 1929, attracted by skeptical reports of the pioneering rocket research of Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University, Lindbergh visited Goddard at his Worcester home because, he said later, "I was trying to look far into the future of flight, and this took me into space. I realized the limitations of the propeller, and this led me into the field of rockets and jet propulsion, which I decided to investigate...
...President took great pains to make every facet of his proposals appealing to Congress. Regionalism will please those Congressmen who have always felt there are too many little countries to keep track of in Asia and Africa. Multilateralism will appease those who see spoiled, stingy Europeans leaving the United States to care for the whole world. And help instead of money is a sure winner with Congressmen concerned about the balance of payments, interested in promoting domestic agriculture and fishing, or just plain grumbly about the idea of giving money away...
...forty-odd students in each class at the Woodrow Wilson School are presumably united by a common goal: the desire to take part in some facet of "public affairs." Exactly what constitutes "public affairs" is unclear, but the definition seems to be narrowing. Two years ago the school was vaguely tolerant of aspiring journalists and not entirely committed to the exclusion of teachers and businessmen; now it is insisting on protobureaucrats. More than ever, its tightly knit (25 courses to choose from) curriculum aims at the production of better civil servants...
...amount of expertise in back-alley battling or electronic espionage could have prepared Helms or CIA for the cacophony of protest that arose last week over yet another facet of U.S. intelligence-the agency's undercover funding of American and international students' associations...
...firmly believe in democracy in every facet of society, but there must be certain guidelines and considerations for others. From the number of demonstrators and the enrollment of the university, it appears to be another minority group attempting to dictate policy, as is the case in most upheavals in today's Great Society...