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...seven had in common medium height (5 ft. 11 in. or less, to squeeze into the space capsule) and medium age (32 to 37-old enough to have the required experience in the air and engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four were their fathers' namesakes. Each was small-town-born, married, a father (one to four children), an active sportsman, a Protestant; each expressed an intimate love for the skies and an abiding faith in the heavens. Yet they were individualists...
Because Herter did serve under Dulles and, even as second in command, was little more than a cipher where policy was concerned, his personal attitudes on policy are very much an unknown quantity. Whatever actions he may pursue, however, the lessons of the past several months should be quite clear to him: the State Department cannot survive "under the Secretary's hat," for the removal of either hat or Secretary results in a paralysis of policy. Herter must use all the resources of personnel available, not only in the execution, but in the formulation of policy...
...lightweights enter today's race with one compensation. Cornell has also been forced to cancel two weeks of river work, and is consequently at a comparable stage of development. Like all un-untried freshmen opponents, Cornell and M.I.T. are unknown quantities...
...people, Franco believes that their vivid memories of the bloody days when brother killed brother in Spain will keep them from open revolt. After 20 years in power, Franco's one great strength with his countrymen lies in the old Spanish saw: "Better the known evil than the unknown good...
...original copy of Rembrandt's An Old Scholar Writing by Candlelight, was recently identified by the Fogg Art Museum as being genuine after lying virtually unknown in various attics since Rembrandt painted...