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...secret" speeches propounding the heretical notion that there can be "contradictions" between a Communist government and its people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about these problems . . . Lenin mentioned them but did not enlarge upon...
...balloon reached 96,000 ft. in 78 minutes. "There I was," cracks Pilot Kittinger, "at 96,000, stalled out but not dropping." The original plan had been for him to make a twelve-hour flight, but an oxygen leak developed, and Colonel Stapp, who was following by helicopter, decided that Kittinger should start down after 2½ hours. Otto Winzen, maker of the balloon, relayed the decision. Kittinger replied in code that he would not come down. Winzen pleaded. Back from 18 miles overhead came the coded answer: "Come and get me." Stapp and Winzen were afraid that hypoxia (lack...
Fiery Plunge. The X-17 is not intended to land safely or to hit a target. The effect of high speed on its nose is observed by instruments and radioed to earth while the missile is still in flight. No official leak has described its last moments, but an eyewitness of a night flight was enormously impressed. Rising from Cape Canaveral, the X-17 was aimed on this occasion so that it would come down in the Atlantic 80 miles east of Florida...
...month ago I was mugged, brutally beaten and robbed by Negroes in New York City. I must say that this experience and some of the appalling statistics that leak out from time to time have opened my eyes. I now have a little more appreciation of the problems in the South. Certainly with equal rights go equal responsibilities? I'd like to see the N.A.A.C.P. do a little more to face up to this problem...
...leak, with the attendant publicity, seemed to at least one member of the Committee to lessen the chances of Jordan's remaining here in some capacity other than football coach, a possibility that apparently had been considered...