Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complacency. The U.S. can count up a dozen successful space shots of its own since Sputnik I, but in a broad view of the space-technology race, the U.S. has greater cause for alarm in October 1959 than it had in October 1957. Two years ago it seemed certain that the U.S., jolted out of complacency by Sput nik I, would proceed to catch up in a hurry. But the U.S. is still lagging behind...
Official reassurances that U.S. space programs are really "in very good shape" (Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, November 1957) keep oozing out of Washington, but they seem fatuous in view of Soviet space performances. With their boasts about the U.S.'s more "sophisticated" space hardware, Washington officials sometimes sound as if they think that U.S. and Soviet rockets are engaged in a beauty contest instead of a race for national prestige, power, and perhaps survival. The plain fact demonstrated by the latest Soviet moon shot, and the shot that hit the moon on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev...
...Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without bothering with elections until later. From a Belgian point of view, there is little to choose between the two major parties-or the 58 other varieties; the main objective of all is to get rid of Belgian rule...
With cool detachment, Northerners often view school segregation as a disease confined to the distant South. Yet many a Northern city is undergoing a vast Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the suburbs. With the newcomers forced into black-belt housing, de facto segregation prevails in urban public schools throughout the North. So goes the pattern in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia-a steady proliferation of conditions contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
Another Alumnus. Angola Prison remains Oster's favorite folk source, and Robert Pete Williams, 42, his favorite singer. A lifer for shooting and killing a man, Williams has, in Oster's view, the "tremendous drive and anguish" that characterized the fabled Lead Belly, another Angola alumnus. Williams recently improvised his own prisoner's blues...