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...Navy is followed by the Air Force, whose strength in Congress Leach attributed to the work of Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.). Leach said he couldn't account for the fact that the Army holds the worst position in Congress...
...races. Of the thirty-two Senatorial contests, twenty-one seats are now held by Republicans and only eleven by Democrats. Four of these Republican incumbents are retiring, while all of the Democrats plan to run for reelection. Five of these are from the South and the other six--Kennedy, Symington, Mansfield, Chavez, Pastore, and Jackson--seem reasonably sure of reelection. Democrats will probably unseat a few Republican incumbents;--in Arizona, for instance, Governor Ernest MacFarland will likely rid the senate of Barry Gold-water...
Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey denounced the Administration's "pseudo optimism," proposed a special agency for coordinating U.S. scientific and technical programs (Michigan's G.O.P. Senator Charles Potter went Humphrey one better, urged a Cabinet-level Scientific Progress Agency). Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington demanded a special session of Congress, criticized the President for being "paternalistically vague...
...scientists who be came the first Americans to see it, the Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last...
...Symington told a news conference that while Russia does not now have an operational intercontinental ballistics missile ICBM, it would have one within two or three years capable of attacking any part of the United States...