Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Official reassurances that U.S. space programs are really "in very good shape" (Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, November 1957) keep oozing out of Washington, but they seem fatuous in view of Soviet space performances. With their boasts about the U.S.'s more "sophisticated" space hardware, Washington officials sometimes sound as if they think that U.S. and Soviet rockets are engaged in a beauty contest instead of a race for national prestige, power, and perhaps survival. The plain fact demonstrated by the latest Soviet moon shot, and the shot that hit the moon on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev...
...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...week's end, the argument that still raged on TV and on the hustings was whether Britain's prosperity was being properly distributed and who could best spread it and keep it going. As Britain's ruling party for the last eight years, the Tories could claim with some truth that they were the builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused...
Corned Beef & Congolese. Besides bombarding Belgian officials and missionaries with letters threatening them with death unless they clear out, the Congolese have begun quarreling among themselves. Last week, at the Kitona paratroop base, 180 men were wounded, after a band of Bakongo tribesmen threw up picket lines to keep non-Bakongo workers away from their jobs. In Moanda, where the" Abako Party has been accusing chiefs of selling out depinda (independence) for a million Congolese francs, at least one chief's house has been burned to the ground, and tension runs so high that Belgian youngsters...
...pulpit. The preacher: touring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a high apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With an interpreter at his side, Mormon Benson spoke with great emotion, poured out his thoughts with eloquent simplicity. Said he: "Be not afraid. Keep his Commandments. Love one another. Love all mankind. Strive for peace, and all will be well. Truth will endure. Time is on the side of truth." Many in the congregation wept, and when Benson finished speaking, his listeners broke out a fluttering sea of white handkerchiefs, sang a farewell hymn to Benson...