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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misnamed Project. Why has the U.S. failed to make an adequate national response to the challenge of space? The failure traces not to a lack of technological skill but to a lack of vision. In the confusion of U.S. space programs, the bulk of the blame can be laid upon no single person-except perhaps the man whose responsibility it is to boss the whole show: President Eisenhower...
...warm, sunlit autumn of 1959, Britons could unreservedly agree upon one proposition: never had so many of them had so much, with so few misgivings. The careless shrug of prosperity provided the title for Britain's current movie hit, I'm All Right, Jack. New restaurants and coffee bars, supermarkets and service stations were mushrooming in cities; in suburban subdivisions, new houses priced from $6,000 to $12,000 often sold before the foundations were laid. In offices and factories, bulletin boards were gay with postcards from vacationing workers in Rome, Majorca, the Costa Brava...
Derick Heathcoat Amory, 59, Chancellor of the Exchequer. A tall, angular bachelor who has served ably in several ministries (Pensions, Board of Trade, Agriculture), Heathcoat (pronounced hethcut) Amory never appears to seek power, but is ready and willing when it is thrust upon him. Many British pols believe that he will eventually make his muted, diffident way to the Prime Ministry itself, but his age, even more than Rab Butler's, is against him. For the present he will probably keep his job at the Treasury...
...their control of the mile-long island has not been contested since 1921, when the Brazilian government withdrew its lighthouse keepers after snakes had killed three of them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies. But all is not well in their paradise. Last week Herpetologist Alphonse Richard Hoge of São Paulo's Butantan Institute of serum therapy reported that the snakes were producing more and more offspring that were neither male nor female, but hermaphrodites...
...some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often clung to tradition without taking into account new knowledge. In the current age, God is calling upon us not to desert the eternal Christian truth but to apply it to the changing circumstances of the modern world...