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...next five years." Wrote retired Army Lieut. General James M. Gavin in his book War and Peace in the Space Age (TIME, Aug. 11): "We are in second place militarily and in second place in the exploration of space." The syndrome had one of its most remarkable manifestations last fortnight, when Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy arose on the Senate floor to say: "Once the Soviets are in the driver's seat, the question arises as to what basic strategy we employ. The classic strategy [is that] of the underdog-and soon we will be the underdog...
...when President Eisenhower suggested a similar plan for the troubled Middle East before the U.N. General Assembly. But more important was Latin America's joint impact on Visitors Richard Nixon, Milton Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. When Dulles returned from talks with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek a fortnight ago, he put his department heads to work on the development bank idea...
...After a fortnight's swing through the Soviet Union, the American Bar Association's President Charles S. Rhyne (TIME, May 5) described the impression Red justice had made on his delegation of U.S. lawyers. In the Soviet Union, said Rhyne, "among the most important questions put to every defendant in a criminal case is, 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?', and, though [the Russians] deny it, the Soviet legal system provides a different type of justice for Communists and non-Communists...
...Trowbridge, a bullpen hopeful early in the season, worked long hours with Braves Pitching Coach Whit Wyatt, learned to put a sharper break on his slider. Fortnight ago 28-year-old Trowbridge pitched seven hitless innings against the Giants, is now a valued reliefer with...
...decades that passed, the whereabouts of Model Edie turned into a mystery. One day a fortnight ago, a young man visited London's Royal Academy of Arts, noticed Millais' Cherry Ripe on exhibition in the collection of the late South African mine owner, Sir Joseph B. Robinson. Thomas sold the portrait to Robinson 60 years ago, and it had been stored with the collection since 1910. The visitor strolled up to a gallery assistant, remarked that the model was his grandmother, and that she would soon come in to see the painting...