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...governments' space policy is not yet clear. The selective strengthening of the space program will not lead to the demise of non-spectacular, non-military scientific research projects if the selection is done wisely. Efforts must be made to leapfrog the Soviets in big boosters, by working on "far-out" ideas. A clear choice must be made between the Rover, Nova and Saturn booster projects, and that choice must be pushed hard, with work done on more than a 40-hour-a-week basis. Adequate deterrent power is an necessity, of course, but unnecessary obeisance must not be made...
...almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came to the National Watershed Conference in dry-as-dust Tucson, Ariz., last week, knew better than to bother with such far-out schemes. Even the keynote speaker, Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, who mentioned grimly that U.S. cities now tolerate twice as much sewage in their drinking water as was considered safe in 1955, held out little hope that the situation would be eased by the use of sea water...
...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation (a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes...
...declared it to be a "recession." If recession it is, Kennedy will suffer from no lack of advice on how to cure it, for he is surrounding himself with a luminous little galaxy of economists from the "activist" school that believes in blunt talk, Government-inspired growth rates, and far-out federal measures to prime the pump. Last week the advice was raining down to the steady beat of one theme: more Government spending, conspicuously including deficit spending...