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Your Nov. 11 "Ups & Downs" chart reveals that the President suffered his downs because he battled for a budget as a price of peace, because he championed a civil rights bill, because the Commies gave their people a Sputnik instead of prosperity and better living standards, and because he defended the Supreme Court's decision and our Constitution by sending troops to Little Rock. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves...
...convinced that some people are more concerned over the welfare of a dog in Sputnik II than they were over human beings during Hungary...
Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...decisions were being taken, the personality of Defense Secretary Neil McElroy began to emerge. McElroy, 53, had come five weeks ago from the presidency of Procter & Gamble at the most difficult possible time-a time of instability caused by technology, politics, economics, interservice rivalries and Sputnik. While he learned the ropes, most of Washington wondered if he was much more than a soap salesman. Last week, at his first press conference, he proved that he knew what he was talking about. Principal points: he admitted without argument or alibi that the U.S. is behind in satellite and long-range-missile...
Radios on both Sputnik I and II are now dead, and the Russians are concentrating on optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle...