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...have sufficiently large boosters to protect us militarily," said President Kennedy at his press conference last week, "but for the long, heavy explorations into space, the Soviet Union has been ahead, and it is going to be a major task to surpass them." Echoed Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who appeared before the House space committee: "You can't buy back four years." The lag, he said, is a matter of "some concern," but the U.S. will now just have to "sweat...
...German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...
John North led the Crimson rifilemen with 278 points, not enough to surpass M.I.T.'s leading individual score of 287. The Crimson team average of 273 was not too far behind North's total, but the Engineers' 284 average proved the deciding factor...
...faith is grounded on do-it-yourself stagecraft, why did we build the Loeb? And neither, and for the same reason, is it an adequate answer to point out that the Loeb contains an experimental theater which can equal any cellar for bareness and surpass it in adaptability, for why then the big stage and that lovely auditorium...
...stylistic excellences of this piece, however; far surpass its ineptitudes. The children's dialogue is superb, illustrating the mixture of sensitivity and incomprehension which comprise Mr. Leland's attitude toward his father's death. The piece is also constructed with obvious care--and it is this sort of care which has made this story so much better than its antecedent...