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...goal drew nearer, it seemed less important. Gone was the romance of seven heroes and their weapons named Atlas. Mercury, rockets which blew up on the pad or went haywire and threatened to devastate peaceful Florida towns unless destroyed by Mission Control. The space program grew at a tremendous rate, overtaking the Russians and overtaking itself to the point where three men died in a dreadful fire during a ground test. Space became business for corporations and convenience for the housewife. After political interferences, the men in the program had changed as well. They could not manage to get their...
...President denies that we are in a revolution. But there are many who would disagree with him, although anarchy may seem nearer to many of us than it really is. The antidemocratic arrogance and nihilism from the political extreme left is an extremism that has spawned a polarization of our people and is increasingly forcing upon the people the narrow choice between anarchy and repression...
...HAVEN, Conn., April 27-The leadership of Friday's Black Panther demonstration proclaimed yesterday its intention to keep the protest peaceful. but tension at Yale and in New Haven continues to grow as Friday draws nearer...
...worst kind. And all this because of 109 Mirage jets? I do not recall a similar cold-shouldering of Russian leaders by American officials at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, or after the invasion of Hungary or Czechoslovakia. I wonder whether Mr. Nasser isn't nearer to the truth than we have wanted to believe. The U.S. is definitely biased in favor of Israel...
Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he sees in the future is a repetition of the past. Bouthoul foresees war over Siberia, for example, as China increasingly competes with Russia for one of the world's last unexploited land masses; or in the mystifying "encirclement psychosis," as he calls it, manifested by the world...