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Since the race began with the 1957 firing of Sputnik I, the U.S. has been handicapped by rockets with far less thrust than the Russian models. Forced to work with small payloads, the U.S. skillfully miniaturized instruments, gathered a library of data from space, and prided itself on the "sophistication" of its equipment. But the big, brute-power feats belonged almost exclusively to the U.S.S.R. The rockets that orbited the two Russian astronauts earlier this year had developed an estimated 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust. At the time, the most powerful U.S. rocket in operation...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...
...this, said Comet, that suddenly thrust the responsibility for leadership upon the American Jewish community, which was in fact not ready for or capable of it. And out of America has come no Jewish culture. Jewish intellectual work in secular areas, and Jewish education has become negligible and sometimes completely meaningless...
...week was the setting for Communism's most serious public rift since Tito's defection from Moscow. Instead of turgid rhetoric, there were revelations about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was the thrust of conflict between Red China and the Soviet Union. With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping...
...answering his own question. He offered no evidence that criticism of the Kennedy Administration is widespread, but he did not hesitate to explain why such criticism should exist. The President's trouble, wrote Alsop, is that he gets too much advice: "With the most terrible choices being daily thrust upon him, Kennedy is daily beset by almost every possible viewpoint. As chief foreign-policymaker, he is the center of an immense, confusing, distracting but continuous churning. This is the true infirmity...