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...Your article "Spinning for Space" [March 12] again proves the accuracy of TIME textstyle in presenting the facts of the Navy's Man in Space research. The Naval Air Training Command is very proud of our contribution to the nation's space programs, but to label NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola as NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Pensacola constitutes a TIMEslip. TIME is always welcome at NAS Pensacola...
...summit conference used to mean a meeting of the world's top leaders.* Nowadays, just about any get-together between heads of government is billed a summit, whether it joins Tito and Nas ser or Liberia's Tubman and the Upper Volta's Yameogo. Last week still an other less than towering summit brought together in Tokyo Indonesia's President Sukarno, Malaysia's Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman and Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal. Agenda: "the Malaysian problem," which happens to be entirely of Sukarno's making...
...considered extremely improbable, however, that the conservatives will succeed in altering any of NSA's basic policies. The most important of those policies likely to be debated is NAS's stand on civil rights...
Although radio astronomers have the most reason for concern, the optical observers are also worried. William Liller, a member of the NAS watchdog group and Professor of Astronomy, has attempted to determine the optical brightness of the copper cloud with the Harvard 61-inch telescope. So far Liller has had no success, but other astronomers have photographed the cloud and have shown that it is not unduly bright...
...night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm, "Nas...