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Although it may be desirable to put a man on the moon eventually, the senselessness and waste of our crash program seem obvious, particularly now that the Russians have slackened the pace of their own. President Kennedy should seize the opportunity presented by the Soviet slowdown to completely reassess NASA's operations. A rational and scientific space research program if, after all, long overdue...
Leading the gain will be Italy (5.5%) and France (4.5%); lagging will be West Germany (3%) and the Benelux countries (3.5%). Eurocrats blamed last winter's brutal weather for a slowdown early in the year but forecast a 6% jump in industrial production during 1963's fourth quarter...
...enrollment was cut 20%, and then cut another 20% the following year. This is a dangerous business, for it was student disaffection that made the Communists' task all the easier in their final big push against the Kuomintang. Communism's problem, at this moment of industrial slowdown, is that there is a shortage of technical and managerial jobs, not of educated people...
...European defense in West Germany. "Under no circumstances," he said, "must we back away from our buildup in Europe. The Russians are only taking the road they have on the test ban because the pressure has been kept on them. We must keep up that pressure. Any reduction or slowdown would be disastrous...
...Common Market's isolation from the rest of Europe, and for strategic reasons is increasingly uneasy at France's alienation of the U.S. The Six, urged Schréder, must "take a positive attitude" to the "Kennedy round" of tariff negotiations, "even if it means a slowdown in our internal development." France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, whose government is afraid of U.S. competition in Europe, repeatedly muttered "absurd" as Schréder and other foreign ministers pressed their case. However, Schréder had a potent weapon. France, Europe's lowest-cost agricultural...