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...answers about when, how and at what cost the U.S. could catch up with the U.S.S.R. in man-in-space prowess. "I don't care where you get the answers," said Kennedy. "If the janitor over there can tell us, ask him." Next Kennedy appeared before the Congress to deliver an unusual midyear State of the Union message. He asked for a $9 billion program to put a man on the moon by 1971, and he placed that request, in a manner smacking more of Hollywood and Vine than of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, close...
...Crimson's sophomore contingent has been showing rapid improvement this season. Guard Sid Davis has provided badly needed reserve strength in the backcourt, and Lenny Strauss has demonstrated admirable back board aggressiveness in addition to scoring prowess. Forward Bob Inman has been another help in the rebounding department. All three should come in handy tonight, especially if fouls begin to mount up on the starters...
...concert could have been enjoyed by a sufficiently tired listener, or by one who heard only the compositions and not the performance; a display of musical prowess...
...Kentucky's Faraway Farm. But the truth is that Man o' War never really died. So firmly rooted is his legend that his portrait still hangs in a place of honor in the clubhouse of nearly every major U.S. race track. So storied was his running prowess that today, 41 years after his last race, Big Red's record remains the standard of purity and perfection against which the performance of every other race horse, sooner or later, must be measured. In 1948, there were hopes that Citation might get up into Red's class...
Westinghouse Electric Corp., whose defense projects account for 20% of its sales, brings its nuclear reactor prowess (Nautilus, Seawolf) to use on Nerva, the first atomic rocket, and SNAP, atomic-generated power for satellites...