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...nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains on the outskirts of Pasadena. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory does not build giant rockets or their engines. It specializes in the long-range research that makes them possible. If and when U.S. spacemen match and outdo the Russians, J.P.L. will deserve a major slice of credit...
...James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be the new National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget before Congress, the Cabinet, and the National Security Council...
Sullivan's Travels: Invitation to Mos cow (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Produced in Moscow by Ed Sullivan, this slice of the State Department's cultural exchange program includes Singer Risë Stevens, Accordionist Dick Contino, Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, and, of course, Smiley himself. The Russians loved...
...took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman before him, Dwight Eisenhower met with stony stares when he urged Congress to give him the chance for an "item veto," enabling him to slice an objectionable section out of a bill without killing the whole bill with the veto ax. But last week Ike got rid of an obnoxious provision in a bill by what amounted to an item veto. Oldtimers in Congress said they could not recall anything quite like...