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...ready to challenge both prosperity and progress with an economic issue of their own-that the balanced budget is no substitute for forced-draft national growth (see Democrats). The U.S.'s lag in the space race had brought such extraterrestrial matters as satellites and lunar probes into the orbit of political oratory. And the solid issue of peace had suddenly been turned into the hottest political question of the early campaign: Is the Administration, in its concern with sound money and balanced budgets, letting the U.S. become second best in military strength...
...satellites so far have gone into elliptical orbits, rising considerably higher above the earth on one side than on the other. Some of the lopsided orbits have been intentional, to give information about thick layers of space. Others, although unwanted, were unavoidable. Once the original rockets had burned out, there was no power available to correct the orbit. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced development of a rocket engine that can fire a second time, enabling ground controllers or an automatic mechanism to kick a straying satellite into a circular orbit by picking the moment to set off the second...
Present plans call for the United States to boost its first Mercury astronaut into orbit in 1961 and to land instruments on the moon...
Before the year ends, the German-born space scientist added, the Soviets may well have put a man into orbit around the earth and dropped a package of live instruments on the moon...
Most bright new comets in the architectural sky soon settle into orbit around such suns as the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago's Mies van der Rohe or France's Le Corbusier. It is a rare one that grows to be a force in his own right. For architectural stargazers, the most exciting new arrival is crew-cut Paul Rudolph, 41, who two years ago was appointed chairman of Yale's department of architecture, and is already beginning to collect a few satellites...