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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time is not far off, said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last week, "when the first spaceship with a man on board will soar into space." He and his audience assumed, of course, that the first spaceman will be a Soviet astronaut riding a Soviet satellite. Most U.S. authorities tend to agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh...
...minimum amount of security; this is the lowest number that will make it possible to identify twenty per cent of the ambiguous disturbances. Communist and Western scientists typically disagree on the number of earthquakes occurring annually that would fall into the Dubious category; as might be expected, the Russians tend to minimize, and the West to maximize, the total...
...Castro sentiment among their own masses and the distasteful memory of past U.S. "interventions" ranging from the Mexican War to the Marine operations in the Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s, even some of the U.S.'s strongest Latin American allies would waver. Latin American governments therefore tend to wish Castro would go away or fall of his own weight, are not very eager to join in the job though opposed to him, and only hope that the U.S. acts in a way it does not ever have cause to regret...
...substantial majority of them were Catholics, mostly Irish Catholics. Apparently the election of Kennedy has not cut off one of the more significant political developments of recent years: the growing tendency for Catholics to espouse conservative political views. (New York liberals and conservatives alike privately admit that liberal movements tend to enlist large numbers of Jews, while conservativism appeals primarily to Catholics.) But while an ethnic interpretation of the rally might be reasonable, a Marxist one clearly is out -- the students were from all economic levels. It was by no means a rally of "Wall Street ruling circles...
Broger emphasized that the film would have no connection with Operation Abolition, noting that only "validated and documented" films will be used. He said "the Defense Department is being careful to stay away from anything that might tend to be propaganda...