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...Administrator T. Keith Glennan insisted that the U.S. was really not too far behind in the space race; in 1961 NASA Chief James Webb insisted that U.S. projects were "solidly based" and proceeding "step by step." In 1957 the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' scoff that Sputnik I was little more than a shot in a game of "outer space basketball." Last week the Kennedy Administration was monumentally embarrassed by an unwitting growl from Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, information officer for the U.S.'s astronautical Project Mercury. Awakened...
...long time, human space travelers may be relatively useless cargo. But scientists whose imaginations run beyond the immediate future do not scoff at men in space. There will come a time, the scientists believe, when men will be needed because of the human capability for judgment and improvisation. A collection of instruments landed on the moon can do only the specific jobs for which it is designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that...
...seems likely to follow Dwight Eisenhower's request to extend the present law while a new sugar policy is worked out.) They are also wary of the effects of a sudden return to good relations with Cuba after their expansion plans are well under way. The Florida optimists scoff at this, say Cuba will never get as large a slice of the U.S. market as it did (3,100,000 tons, one-third of U.S. consumption...
...biologists and the practitioners of a dozen other pure sciences, it is the "science" of space that is of most absorbing interest to the peoples of the world. Man's reach toward the heavens is indeed the stuff that dreams are made of?and some scientists are inclined to scoff at it for precisely that reason. But others, of equal stature and equal dedication to scientific truth, not only share in the out-of-this-world dreams but are devoting their great talents toward cracking the secrets of the infinite beyond...
...Miss Dailey," wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express. "She sweats love, breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...