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American wariness about Britain's proposed entry into the Common Market is made explicit in an economic argument: If the U.K. joined the Common Market, her colleagues in the 'Outer Seven' would do like-wise, and the United States would find itself squeezed out of a unified European market. Inclusion of Britain in the EEC, it is argued, will therefore be economically disadvantageous to the United States...
...argument lacks proportion rather than truth. It is 'indeed true that most 'Outer Seven' countries would follow Britain and that an all-European economic union would hurt certain U.S. exports, particularly in the agricultural sector. But since the United States exports relatively little of its national product, an integrated European market could do nothing more than occasion the! readjustment of a minute portion of the American economy...
Some analysts have speculated that the unsatisfactory economic argument may cover up the more basic political suspicion that a merger of 'Outer Seven' with 'Inner Six' would grow into a 'third force' which would ultimately decrease the relative political power of the United States. If this analysis is correct, American uneasiness about the European Movement is neither intelligent nor noble, for it is based, on the one hand, on the view that the quantity of political power is eternally fixed and on the other, on the uncharitable assumption that Europe will desert the Western Alliance...
...President on down, could forget for an instant that at the tip of this particular Redstone, nicknamed Freedom 7, was a capsule carrying a 160-lb. man named Alan B. Shepard Jr., a Navy commander, a citizen of Derry, N.H., and the first American to attempt to pierce outer space (see SCIENCE cover...
...laments of disillusioned New Frontiersmen paled before the assaults from less charitable quarters-where newsmen seemed almost relieved that Kennedy had at last given them cause to howl. In Chicago, the conservative Tribune reprinted a few Kennedy campaign promises-"I am not satisfied to be second to outer space," "I am not satisfied to have the deadly hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with...