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...balanced budget is no substitute for forced-draft national growth (see Democrats). The U.S.'s lag in the space race had brought such extraterrestrial matters as satellites and lunar probes into the orbit of political oratory. And the solid issue of peace had suddenly been turned into the hottest political question of the early campaign: Is the Administration, in its concern with sound money and balanced budgets, letting the U.S. become second best in military strength...
...last week's international space conference at Nice, France, the hottest subject was "exobiology," a newly coined word for the study of life that may exist beyond the earth. Space Scientist Anatoly Blagonravov, head of the Soviet delegation, announced that the Russians intend to aim rockets at both Mars and Venus. Said he: "Instruments brought into the immediate proximity of the surfaces of other planets will permit, in the near future, the solution of one of the mysteries of the world, the existence of life on other planets." Blagonravov did not predict more definitely when the Soviet interplanetary rockets...
...voters) of playing along with the N.A.A.C.P. and Teamster Boss James Hoffa, promised to go to jail before he would permit integration in Louisiana schools. Although he had token support from outgoing Governor Earl Long, Davis' biggest ally was State Senator Willie Rainach, one of Louisiana's hottest segregationists; Rainach rounded up thousands of supporters with the promise that Davis would make him boss of an anti-integration state sovereignty commission...
...hottest politico-economic arguments in the U.S. involves the question: Is the U.S. growing fast enough? Last week the Federal Reserve Board produced factual proof that the industrial side of the U.S. economy is growing much faster than the Federal Reserve - and most economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last...
Annie is one of the countless hopefuls whom Hollywood could not appreciate, who came home after a broken marriage and 18 second-rate movies. But the corn grows even taller. Annie is also the girl who finally got a crack at Broadway and became the hottest ticket in town on her first try. And finally-most typical cliche of the times-she is the girl who is now trying to find herself in long, earnest hours of psychoanalysis...