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...bill is a good indication that a hyperactive President is not always necessary to useful legislative progress. Ultimately, the question is whether a Whig's approach can deal with the great internal problems of the U.S. today. Federal authority expanded from the New Deal onward largely because a vacuum existed at lower levels of government and in the private sector. Crises existed that only Washington seemed willing to attack. Today the problems may be different, but they are no less urgent. One test of Nixon's philosophy will come when state and city governments show whether they...
...first party problem posed by his eclipse is what one Republican leader calls a "glamour vacuum." Another, potentially more serious threat is that Kennedy's removal from presidential politics -at least for now-could encourage the party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This could take the form of either a McCarthy-like revolt within the party or an effort to form a new party. At the same time, the prospects of other possible candidates are in flux: ∙HUBERT HUMPHREY. Now that Eugene McCarthy has renounced ambition for another Senate term, Humphrey will almost...
Despite the undeniable progress of the Apollo postmortem, there were some glitches. A vital rubber glove used to reach into the vacuum chamber holding the lunar rocks and equipment cracked, causing air to rush into the chamber. Two technicians, exposed to lunar material, were quickly placed in quarantine, at least until the astronauts get a clean bill of health. The plumbing presented a more familiar problem. Twice a urinal backed up in an unquarantined section of the spanking new $15.8 million lab. That caused a full day's delay in experiments...
...which seemed to be basaltic, or of volcanic origin. Though Aldrin originally used the word wet to describe the lunar soil that he extracted with a core sampler, it was later explained that he had meant simply that the material tended to cling together because of the lunar vacuum...
...bikini-clad go-go dancer go-goed it on the diving board (to the low-down accompaniment of a group called "The Astronauts"), while leering spectators grabbed for her, missed, and tumbled into the drink. By dawn, the only thing that moved was the attendant with the heavy-duty vacuum cleaner that was slowly sucking up the mess around the poolside...