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...back from the fruitless U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R. nuclear test-ban talks in Geneva, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, formally recommended to the President that the U.S. continue tests of small-yield nuclear weapons underground and of nuclear weapons in outer space, e.g., antiaircraft or future antimissile-missile warheads to defend U.S. cities. The Communists, said Gore, are "insincere." And the U.S., if it keeps up its present line at Geneva, is in danger of getting "mousetrapped...
...DENVER POST: OUR view is that millions of people were shaken by Republican doubletalk over the budget two years ago, the U.S. lag in missiles and the race for outer space, the incredible confusion over civil defense, the Sherman Adams case, Little Rock, and the antics of John Foster Dulles. It all adds up to weak, distracted and irrationalized leadership...
...Spring, Texas (pop. 24,800), Johnson dashed off a list of likely congressional specifics: a depressed-areas bill, "an atomic merchant marine," bigger water development programs for the West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth of our economy"). Also on his target list in some form: Ezra...
Tennessee's Albert Gore, now safe for another six years in the U.S. Senate, speaking for a Michigan congressional candidate: "If the Republican Party were ever reincarnated into a homing pigeon, no matter where it was released in the universe, whether from a jet plane or in outer space, it would go directly home to Wall Street without a flutter of the wing...
...near at hand when a missile will soar out into free space. Last week North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out its X-15 - a stub-winged, hard-shelled rocket.plane designed to study the other end of the problem: how to get a man back safely from outer space...