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Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...according to the pols and the polls, have at least an outside chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, Stuart Symington is the least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going for him. He has had more high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government than Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Texas' Lyndon Johnson put together. As a Midwesterner of Southern ancestry, who was born in Amherst, Mass, and raised in Baltimore, Md., he has an enviably broad and safe...
Your breathless account of all the high-level maneuvering at mighty G.M. to bring forth the Corvair mouse reads like a novel, but it's a lot of amiable nonsense. In this age of space miracles, why give so much importance to so small an accomplishment as moving a motor to the rear end? The day to celebrate a great achievement would be when G.M. designs a really safe...
...years later the U.S. is still running a poor second in the two-entry space race. And in high-level Washington last week, there still were no detectable signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race...
...direct result of the Nixon party's tour of the Soviet Union and Poland, some new assumptions are bound to be cranked into high-level U.S. policy decisions. Among the assumptions, as pieced together by TIME'S White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, who traveled with the Nixon party...