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...Hill the year's sorest political question, Ike's budget, was being fought out on partisan lines. Moreover, up to week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
...course, but writers don't work in a vacuum. If critics don't maintain independent standards, then the only way a writer can judge himself is by intuition or by the fact that the publishers and the public prove that his book is marketable...
...past tended to follow the British lead there long after it ceased to in other parts of the world. All that ended in the wreckage of Suez, and the U.S. has moved to fill the Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab nationalist pride). The new U.S. policy, of which the Eisenhower Doctrine is the core, is by far the most important extension of foreign policy enunciated by the present Administration. In one sense, what Ben-Gurion accepted last week was worth more than what Dulles had suggested back...
...proportion than the skin of an apple, and that military technology is about to outgrow it, as it outgrew the earth's surface two world wars ago. Navigation of the air-film is no longer enough. No nation will be safe unless it can also navigate the vacuum that hangs overhead...
...create a chunk of space on earth, California's Litton Industries Inc. has developed a vacuum chamber big enough to hold a man. The device can simulate conditions some 200 miles above the earth, where air molecules wander around as individual particles, not as a gas. Wearing a space suit, a scientist eventually will enter the vacuum and experiment with such puzzling problems as the behavior of lubricants in space, and the reaction of a model satellite, minus a protective cushion of air, to sunlight. X rays and ultraviolet rays beamed in through portholes in the chamber...