Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, overall policymaking is done by the top-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by the President himself. But NASC meets seldom, spends much of its time deciding which organization-chart rectangles various projects belong to. The Mercury man-in-space program, for example, has migrated during the past two years from the Air Force to ARPA to NASA, inevitably losing momentum with each shift...
Once Stung. Only once during the week did Candidate Nixon get into the give and take of partisan politics. Then, stung by Democratic Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington's criticism of Administration missile and space policies, Nixon replied: "While he was Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There...
...audience that the U.S.S.R. has no intention of trying to equal U.S. automobile output. "We will use automobiles more rationally than the Americans do," he said. "We are going to establish taxi pools, where people can use cars when they need them. Why should a man worry about parking space...
...Russian space vehicle skimmed past the moon at a distance of 4,300 miles, then moved on into space, gradually slowing down. As it passed. Lunik III was deflected by the moon's gravity, which made it veer in the moon's direction, like a child swinging on a gatepost. But the tug was not enough to make it curve sharply and start right back. Instead, it swung out 67,000 miles beyond the moon's orbit (and 292,000 miles from the earth); then it started slowly back. By this time the moon, traveling...
...Spain (pop. 29,662,000), about 200 of them in Madrid. During the past decade, with tentative approval from the Franco regime, Madrid's Jews have held makeshift services in a room that became known, after its owner, as "Lawenda's basement"; occasionally, they managed to rent space in the Castellano Hilton for the High Holy Days. Then, five years ago, Madrid's Jewish community started drawing plans for a permanent synagogue...