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...transcendent importance" to the U.S.'s security. To discard or drastically slash the program, the President warned, would bring about a "basic impairment of free world power" and a "crumbling'' of the U.S.'s "strategic overseas positions." The results would be heavier defense spending, higher taxes, bigger draft calls and "ultimately, a beleaguered America, her freedoms limited by mounting defense costs, and almost alone in a world dominated by international Communism...
...Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner in his honor: "There are four or five million men and women looking for work, and millions more working only part-time . . . the farmers are told to get off the land and join the ranks of the unemployed . . . bankruptcies have never been higher except during the last Republican depression. When a condition arises which causes you to lose your job you can call it a recession or a deflation or a panic. When you don't have anything to wear, anything to eat in the house, and you have some small mouths...
...unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
Solid-fuel rockets avoid most of this waste of energy by burning their fuel very fast-in a few seconds, if desirable. Instead of struggling painfully off the ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...
...they have their man. A Harvard Ph.D., Odegaard arrived at Michigan the same year Schmitz went to Washington. In the next five years, his budget doubled to nearly $7,000,000; the faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week, as Michigan mourned the loss of its able dean, Washington rejoiced. Observed Seattle...