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...days, 15-year-old Gregorio Rodriguez helped his family steer a tiny sailboat to Florida. How many other craft have been lost at sea no one knows...
...make Republicans respectable south of the Mason-Dixon line-but at the real risk of earning the enmity of U.S. Negroes. As the admitted hero of U.S. conservatives, Goldwater has been unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place in the G.O.P. But Goldwater critics could easily make hay of his refusal to reprimand the John Birch Society, even though Barry has publicly tut-tutted the overzealous Red-hunting of his friend Robert Welch, the society's founder. Of the society, Barry...
Throughout the conversations, Kennedy kept to specifics, hoping to steer Khrushchev away from opportunities to make speeches. For his part, Khrushchev seemed surprisingly indifferent to the ultimate fate of at least two world trouble spots. The Soviet leader expressed his interest in seeing a truly neutral Laos-and left Kennedy with the impression that he might possibly help get the stalled Geneva talks off the ground-but added that Laos was of no great interest to the Soviet Union. Neither was Cuba, although Khrushchev added that U.S. policies were fast turning Castro into a good Communist. Kennedy bluntly denied...
...probably depend on parachutes to lower them gently to a passive landing. This is the approach of U.S. Project Mercury and presumably of the Soviet man-in-space program. A more ambitious approach is to glide the returning space craft down through the atmosphere on red-hot wings and steer it undamaged to a desired landing strip. The Xis is no space craft, but when the first true space craft makes a controlled landing, it will owe a considerable debt to pioneering Major Robert White and his hot-nosed little airplane...
Just out of the Navy, John Hultberg in 1947 enrolled in San Francisco's California School of Fine Arts, and it seemed that artistically there was only one course for him to steer. Abstractionism was the powerful new movement, and some of its most famous practitioners-notably Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko-were his teachers. Hultberg has nothing but admiration for these men-but purely abstract painting...