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...lag in the space race seriously damaged U.S. prestige in the world? Yes, said the U.S. Information Agency's able Director George V. Allen, in testimony before a congressional committee last week. Testified Allen, contradicting the Administration's position that the U.S. is not in a space race with the U.S.S.R.: as a result of Soviet space successes and U.S. space failures, the prevailing opinion in the world today is that the U.S.S.R. is ahead of the U.S. in science and technology. "The successful launching of Sputnik I created an intensity of reaction throughout the world which...
Space: Under heavy criticism for the U.S. space lag, the President asked that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration be raised from $325 million to $600 million for nonmilitary space work. The President ordered NASA to step up the U.S. drive in "the developing of large space vehicle systems essential to the exploration of space...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The U.S. missile program takes an hour-long examination. Title question: "The Space Lag: Can Democracy Compete?" Others: "Could the U.S. have launched Explorer 1 before the Russians launched Sputnik 1?" "Is a democracy badly impeded in the race for space with a dictatorship?" Thurs., Jan. 7 Special Tonight...
...Soviet Union and a series of summit conferences?all carrying a special challenge, since the U.S. has become the home of so many hopes. For the same reason the U.S. will have less privacy and more urgency in facing 1960's other problems, old and new: the dangerous U.S. lag in space achievement; the delicate, perilous balance between fiscal responsibility and military strength; the integrity of NATO as a free-world shield; the unrest in the U.S.'s backyard as shown in 1959 by and-American riots in Bolivia and Panama and by the bearded demagoguery of Cuba's Fidel...
Latin America (a Rockefeller specialty) : In Dallas, he came out for a broad new Latin America program, including "economic union," stepped-up cultural exchange, and "imaginative" measures to deal with Latin America's lag in education and health...