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Matter of Survival. The Kennedys were acutely aware of the potential peril of Kennedyism as an issue. Jack and Bobby were dubious about Teddy's candidacy from the beginning. Teddy understood their doubts; yet he plunged right ahead. Why? First, because his father insisted. Second, because the Senate race was a challenge-and Teddy Kennedy is remarkable even among the Kennedys for his fiercely competitive spirit...
...exactly as planned." According to calculations based on radio measurements of the spacecraft's decreased speed, Mariner II had corrected its course neatly; instead of missing Venus by 233,000 miles, it would pass it on Dec. 14 at the ideal observation distance of 9,000 miles. Some peril of hostile space may yet put Mariner II out of action before it reaches its goal, but already its voyage is a triumph of U.S. technology...
...maximum orderly effort." If it is, then maximum needs a new definition. The space program could certainly use more money. But much more important, it requires a new direction of purpose. Scientific advancement is fine; so is the international prestige that comes with space achievement. But only at its peril can the U.S. forget that old maxim about the high ground...
Roadblocks Everywhere. As nothing else, the sudden anarchy brought home to Brazilians the peril of their patchwork political regime. Because the army and conservative Brazilians considered Goulart a dangerous leftist, he was not allowed to succeed Quadros in the presidency until a parliamentary system was hurriedly devised to confine his powers. The confining proved so effective that neither Goulart nor Tancredo Neves, the Prime Minister with whom he shared office, could get anything done. When they did agree, conservatives in Congress blocked virtually every badly needed reform bill Goulart's government proposed...
...years ago, such a bill would have seemed hopelessly visionary. But in just the past few months the European Common Market, long an ephemeral concept to most Americans, has taken shape as the embodiment of an invigorated and competitive Europe that the U.S. can ignore only at its peril. The Common Market-and the growing tendency of other nations to join in trade blocs-meant one thing to the U.S. economy: in order to overcome the tariff favoritism granted to each other by the Market's member nations, the U.S. must be able to bargain for a share...